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From: cbrown@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Charles T Brown)
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Subject: Re: What is strdup() supposed to do? Does anyone have a copy?
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Date: 17 Feb 91 04:59:13 GMT
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In article <1991Feb14.050716.9501@shibaya.lonestar.org> afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
>While attempting to compile the recently posted procmail package, I could
>not fine strdup() in any library, on any of the machines I have access to.
>
>If anybody has a copy they can send, I'd really appreciate it.  Failing
>that, a man page or description would certainly help.
>
>Thanks.

Well, having learned C with Microsoft C, I looked it up.

Basically:

char * strdup (s)

char * s;
{
	char * rets;

	rets=malloc (sizeof (char) * strlen (s));

	strcpy (rets, s);

	return rets;
}


In other words, it just duplicates the string.	

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