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+/* $Id: strndup.c,v 1.1 2004/04/20 18:01:33 msoffen Exp $ */
+#include <portability.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2004 Matt Soffen <sirgeek-ha@mrsucko.org>
+ * This software licensed under the GNU LGPL.
+ *
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ * 
+ * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ * 
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ *
+ */
+
+/* Taken from the GlibC implementation of strndup */
+
+char *strndup(const char *str, size_t len)
+{
+	size_t n = strnlen(str,len);
+	char *new = (char *) malloc (len+1);
+
+	if (NULL == new) {
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	new[n] = '\0';
+	return (char *)memcpy (new, str, len);
+}
+
+/* 
+ * $Log: strndup.c,v $
+ * Revision 1.1  2004/04/20 18:01:33  msoffen
+ * Created strndup function from code in glibc
+ *
+ */