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From: koblas@mips.com (David Koblas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.unix.large
Subject: Re: strdup
Message-ID: <lckirmINNosg@spim.mti.sgi.com>
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:51:02 GMT
References: <br.pct.52.717898310@RLG.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <br.pct.52.717898310@RLG.Stanford.EDU> br.pct@RLG.Stanford.EDU (Peter C. Tam) writes:
>
> In BSD 4.3 C lib, there is no strdup that is provided in System 5,
>& I just happened to get a program that was supposed to be able to compile
>in BSD also. Can anyone tell me where I can get the strdup routine for
>BSD 4.3, especially, in ibm.pc.rt AOS.
Here's a copy (typed in off the cuff, so I won't say it is guaranteed to work):
char *strdup(char *str)
{
char *cp = (char *)malloc(strlen(str));
return cp ? strcpy(cp, str), cp : NULL;
}
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