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Subject: Re: avoiding strdup()
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On 09/03/2024 13:19, vallor wrote:

> 
> I asked Google about it [strdup] being a POSIX extension
> added at that late date, and it gave me an answer
> about the C standard:
> 
> "C9X London meeting update"
> https://groups.google.com/g/comp.std.c/c/pMaEU_8Rb7w

That is from 1997

.... And shows just how useful a searchable usenet archive can be.
Pity google threw their toys out of the pram.