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1 /*
2  *  linux/tools/lib/string.c
3  *
4  *  Copied from linux/lib/string.c, where it is:
5  *
6  *  Copyright (C) 1991, 1992  Linus Torvalds
7  *
8  *  More specifically, the first copied function was strtobool, which
9  *  was introduced by:
10  *
11  *  d0f1fed29e6e ("Add a strtobool function matching semantics of existing in kernel equivalents")
12  *  Author: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
13  */
14 
15 #include <stdlib.h>
16 #include <string.h>
17 #include <errno.h>
18 #include <linux/string.h>
19 
20 /**
21  * memdup - duplicate region of memory
22  *
23  * @src: memory region to duplicate
24  * @len: memory region length
25  */
26 void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)
27 {
28 	void *p = malloc(len);
29 
30 	if (p)
31 		memcpy(p, src, len);
32 
33 	return p;
34 }
35 
36 /**
37  * strtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values
38  * @s: input string
39  * @res: result
40  *
41  * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0'.
42  * Otherwise it will return -EINVAL.  Value pointed to by res is
43  * updated upon finding a match.
44  */
45 int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
46 {
47 	switch (s[0]) {
48 	case 'y':
49 	case 'Y':
50 	case '1':
51 		*res = true;
52 		break;
53 	case 'n':
54 	case 'N':
55 	case '0':
56 		*res = false;
57 		break;
58 	default:
59 		return -EINVAL;
60 	}
61 	return 0;
62 }
63