1.\" 2.\" This file and its contents are supplied under the terms of the 3.\" Common Development and Distribution License ("CDDL"), version 1.0. 4.\" You may only use this file in accordance with the terms of version 5.\" 1.0 of the CDDL. 6.\" 7.\" A full copy of the text of the CDDL should have accompanied this 8.\" source. A copy of the CDDL is also available via the Internet at 9.\" http://www.illumos.org/license/CDDL. 10.\" 11.\" 12.\" Copyright 2014 Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org> 13.\" 14.Dd "Nov 4, 2014" 15.Dt WCSDUP 3C 16.Os 17.Sh NAME 18.Nm wcsdup 19.Nd duplicate wide-character string 20.Sh SYNOPSIS 21.In wchar.h 22. 23.Ft wchar_t 24.Fo wcsdup 25.Fa "const wchar_t *string" 26.Fc 27. 28.Sh DESCRIPTION 29The 30.Fn wcsdup 31function duplicates a wide-character 32.Fa string , 33allocating sufficient memory to store the copy, and then 34copying from 35.Fa string . 36The resulting copy is returned. 37It may be deallocated with 38.Xr free 3C 39when it is no longer needed. 40The 41.Fn wcsdup 42function is the wide-character equivalent of 43.Xr strdup 3C . 44.Sh RETURN VALUES 45On success, the function 46.Fn wcsdup 47returns the newly allocated copy of the string; on failure it 48returns 49.Dv NULL 50and sets 51.Va errno . 52.Sh ERRORS 53The 54.Fn wcsdup 55function will fail if: 56.Bl -tag -width Er 57.It Er ENOMEM 58Insufficient memory was available to create the copy. 59.El 60.Sh INTERFACE STABILITY 61.Sy Standard . 62.Sh MT-LEVEL 63.Sy MT-Safe . 64.Sh SEE ALSO 65.Xr free 3C , 66.Xr strdup 3C , 67.Xr wcslen 3C , 68.Xr wchar.h 3HEAD , 69.Xr locale 7 , 70.Xr standards 7 71.Sh STANDARDS 72The 73.Fn wcsdup 74function was introduced in 75.St -p1003.1-2008 . 76