NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | ATTRIBUTES | CONFORMING TO | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

WCSDUP(3)                 Linux Programmer's Manual                WCSDUP(3)

NAME         top

       wcsdup - duplicate a wide-character string

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <wchar.h>
       wchar_t *wcsdup(const wchar_t *s);
   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
       wcsdup():
           Since glibc 2.10:
               _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
           Before glibc 2.10:
               _GNU_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION         top

       The wcsdup() function is the wide-character equivalent of the
       strdup(3) function.  It allocates and returns a new wide-character
       string whose initial contents is a duplicate of the wide-character
       string pointed to by s.
       Memory for the new wide-character string is obtained with malloc(3),
       and should be freed with free(3).

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, wcsdup() returns a pointer to the new wide-character
       string.  On error, it returns NULL, with errno set to indicate the
       cause of the error.

ERRORS         top

       ENOMEM Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.

ATTRIBUTES         top

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       attributes(7).
       ┌──────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │Interface Attribute     Value   │
       ├──────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │wcsdup()  │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └──────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

CONFORMING TO         top

       POSIX.1-2008.  This function is not specified in POSIX.1-2001, and is
       not widely available on other systems.

SEE ALSO         top

       strdup(3), wcscpy(3)

COLOPHON         top

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