[Bug-gnulib] Re: (x)memdup

[Simon Josefsson]

"Oskar Liljeblad" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Having written a (x)memdup module once, only to later remember that
xclone exist, I agree with this request.

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.

Thanks.