WCSDUP(3) Linux Programmer's Manual WCSDUP(3)NAMEwcsdup - 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.
SEE ALSOstrdup(3), wcscpy(3)COLOPHON
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