wcsdup(3)

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NAME

6       wcsdup - duplicate a wide-character string
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SYNOPSIS

9       #define _GNU_SOURCE
10       #include <wchar.h>
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12       wchar_t *wcsdup(const wchar_t *s);
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DESCRIPTION

15       The wcsdup() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strdup(3)
16       function.  It allocates and returns a new wide-character  string  whose
17       initial contents is a duplicate of the wide-character string pointed to
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20       Memory for the new wide-character string is  obtained  with  malloc(3),
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RETURN VALUE

24       The  wcsdup()  function  returns  a  pointer  to the new wide-character
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ERRORS

28       ENOMEM Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.
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CONFORMING TO

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

38       This  page  is  part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
39       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
40       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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