Re: Re: patch for src/backend/main/main.ch

See:

./utils/strdup.c

We use our own if configure does not find it.

> * Michael C. Thornburgh <zenomt(at)armory(dot)com> [010123 17:33] wrote:
> >
> > that certainly works and is much cleaner, but strdup
> > may not be as ubiquitous as malloc & strncpy.
> > someone more versed in portability issues than i am
> > should speak to that.
>
> hmm:
>
> HISTORY
> The strdup() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.
>
> however:
>
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/99/March/0038.html
>
> "strdup is no in the ANSI standard"
>
> however:
>
> ~/pgcvs % find . -name "*.c" | xargs grep strdup | grep -v pstrdup | wc -l
> 563
>
> (pstrdup() seems to be some internal postgresql function.)
>
> So I think anyone who wants to port should provide thier own
> function.
>
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net|alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org]
> "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
>

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