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WCSDUP

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2017-09-15
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NAME

wcsdup - duplicate a wide-character string

SYNOPSIS

#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

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

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

ENOMEM: Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

Interface	Attribute	Value
wcsdup()	Thread safety	MT-Safe

CONFORMING TO

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

COLOPHON

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