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From: Daniel Hemmerich <dan@BSDpro.com>
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Subject: adding a new function to libc
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 02:10:45 -0400
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Any comments, suggestions, swears concerning adding a new function, 
strndup(), to libc?

So that instead of permitting it to attempt to allocate a large chunk of 
memory, it is possible to give it a max length.

char *
strndup(str, max_len)
        const char *str;
        size_t max_len;
{
        size_t len;
        char *copy;

        len = strlen(str) + 1;
        if (len > max_len)
                len = max_len;
        if ((copy = malloc(len)) == NULL)
                return (NULL);
        memcpy(copy, str, len);
        return (copy);
}

-- 
Daniel Hemmerich
dan@BSDpro.com

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