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      1 /* Duplicate a bounded initial segment of a string, with out-of-memory
      2    checking.
      3    Copyright (C) 2003, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
      4 
      5    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
      6    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
      7    the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
      8    (at your option) any later version.
      9 
     10    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     11    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     12    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
     13    GNU General Public License for more details.
     14 
     15    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
     16    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
     17 
     18 #include <config.h>
     19 
     20 /* Specification.  */
     21 #include "xstrndup.h"
     22 
     23 #include <string.h>
     24 #include "xalloc.h"
     25 
     26 /* Return a newly allocated copy of at most N bytes of STRING.
     27    In other words, return a copy of the initial segment of length N of
     28    STRING.  */
     29 char *
     30 xstrndup (const char *string, size_t n)
     31 {
     32   char *s = strndup (string, n);
     33   if (! s)
     34     xalloc_die ();
     35   return s;
     36 }
     37