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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-04-19 10:12:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-04-19 14:19:01 +0200 |
| commit | 6a7883104f8a2912d0cfb58ef9fda7d3ec8c4386 (patch) | |
| tree | 4449a26a2bf63fe2d33e19359d0c2626155f351d /man3/strdup.3 | |
| parent | 72cc8811baf82825953f5a5169a9a4d323e62e09 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-6a7883104f8a2912d0cfb58ef9fda7d3ec8c4386.tar.gz | |
strdup.3: RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/strdup.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/strdup.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/strdup.3 b/man3/strdup.3 index 67a0f54718..9b3a4c0f5b 100644 --- a/man3/strdup.3 +++ b/man3/strdup.3 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" 386BSD man pages .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:41:34 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" Modified Wed Oct 17 01:12:26 2001 by John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> -.TH STRDUP 3 2012-05-10 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH STRDUP 3 2013-04-19 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME strdup, strndup, strdupa, strndupa \- duplicate a string .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -102,10 +102,13 @@ They are available only when using the GNU GCC suite, and suffer from the same limitations described in .BR alloca (3). .SH RETURN VALUE -The +On success, the .BR strdup () function returns a pointer to the duplicated -string, or NULL if insufficient memory was available. +string. +It returns NULL if insufficient memory was available, with +.I errno +set to indicate the cause of the error. .SH ERRORS .TP .B ENOMEM |