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NAME

       wcsdup - duplicate a wide-character string

SYNOPSIS

       #define _GNU_SOURCE
       #include <wchar.h>

       wchar_t *wcsdup(const wchar_t *s);

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

       The wcsdup() function returns a pointer to the new wide-character string, or NULL if sufficient memory was not available.

ERRORS

       ENOMEM Insufficient memory available to allocate duplicate string.

CONFORMING TO

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

SEE ALSO

       strdup(3), wcscpy(3), feature_test_macros(7)

COLOPHON

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       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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								    2009-02-04								 WCSDUP(3)