coreutils/lib/xstrndup.h
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/* Duplicate a bounded initial segment of a string, with out-of-memory
checking.
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
#include <stddef.h>
/* Return a newly allocated copy of at most N bytes of STRING.
In other words, return a copy of the initial segment of length N of
STRING. */
extern char *xstrndup (const char *string, size_t n);