Re: [Bug-gnulib] (x)memdup

[Jim Meyering]

"Oskar Liljeblad" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is there any change xclone could be named/aliased 'xmemdup',
> similar to xstrdup? I think (x)memdup is much more straightforward
> for those who know the standard C library. Besides linux has a
> syscall 'clone' which is something completely different.

I like the idea of renaming xclone to xmemdup.

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Another nit: how about merging xstrdup.c into xmalloc.c?  I don't see
> the point of separating the two files.  xstrdup is declared in
> xalloc.h, after all.

I agree.