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Issue of the Standard # S0019

Brief

No possible errors are defined for wcsdup()

Detailed Description

Standard states that wcsdup() is the wide-character equivalent of strdup(). strdup() shall set errno to ENOMEM if storage space available is insufficient. However, there are no possible errors defined for wcsdup() in this case.

Problem location(s) in the standard

Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.1, Chapter 13. Base Libraries, 13.5. Interface Definitions for libc, description of function wcsdup.

Possible solutions

State that "wcsdup() shall set errno to ENOMEM if storage space available is insufficient".

Accepted

LSB Bugzilla, 1322

Status

Fixed in LSB 3.2

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