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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Make xstrndup common
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 00:21:50 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:12:50PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Unless I am missing something, I think this should work:
> > 
> > static inline char *xstrndup(const char *str, int len)
> > {
> > 	char *result = strndup(str, len);
> > 	if (result == NULL)
> > 		die ("xstrndup(): out of memory");
> > 	return result;
> > }
> > 
> > Hmm?
> 
> I can't speak for the original authors, but I imagine part of the
> impetus was that strndup is a GNU-ism.

D'oh! I never thought this was a GNU-ism.

Ciao,
Dscho