diff -r 000000000000 -r c2f4c0285180 gclib/strfuncs.c
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/gclib/strfuncs.c	Tue Jan 24 23:54:05 2012 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <gclib/mem.h>
+#include <gclib/strfuncs.h>
+
+/*
+ * Like strndup, but only returns NULL if str is NULL.
+ * Note that this routine copies n bytes rather than n characters.
+ */
+char *str_ndup(const char *str,size_t n)
+{
+    char *dup;
+    if (!str)
+	return NULL;
+    dup=mem_alloc0(n+1,1);
+    strncpy(dup,str,n);
+    return dup;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Like strdup, but only returns NULL if str is NULL.
+ */
+char *str_dup(const char *str)
+{
+    return str_ndup(str,strlen(str));
+}