firestring_strdup(3)

NAME
firestring_strdup - strdup(3) with internal result checking

SYNOPSIS
#include <firestring.h>
-lfirestring

char *firestring_strdup(const char * const input)

DESCRIPTION
firestring_strdup() acts exactly like strdup(3) except that it detects malloc failures, prints an error and exit(3) with exit status EXIT_FAILURE. In most programs, malloc failures are unrecoverable, and this is the preferred behaviour.

RETURN VALUE
If firestring_strdup() returns, it always returns a copy of the string input. It never returns NULL.

AUTHOR
Ian Gulliver <ian@penguinhosting.net>

SEE ALSO
libfirestring(3)