NAME¶

strdup - duplicate a string

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <string.h>

char *strdup(const char *s);

DESCRIPTION¶

The strdup() function returns a pointer to a new string which is a duplicate of the string s. Memory for the new string is obtained with malloc(3), and can be freed with free(3).

RETURN VALUE¶

The strdup() function returns a pointer to the duplicated string, or NULL if insufficient memory was available.

ERRORS¶

ENOMEM

Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.

CONFORMING TO¶

SVID 3, BSD 4.3

SEE ALSO¶

calloc(3), malloc(3), realloc(3), free(3)