wcsdup - duplicate a wide-character string
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Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
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│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
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│ wcsdup() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
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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).
Errors
ENOMEM Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.
History
libc5, glibc 2.0.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
wcsdup - duplicate a wide-character string
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 error.
See Also
strdup(3), wcscpy(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 wcsdup(3)
Standards
POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<wchar.h>wchar_t*wcsdup(constwchar_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
