af_alg: Improve comments.
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1 /* Duplicate a bounded initial segment of a string, with out-of-memory
2 checking.
3 Copyright (C) 2003, 2009-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
18 #include <stddef.h>
20 /* Return a newly allocated copy of at most N bytes of STRING.
21 In other words, return a copy of the initial segment of length N of
22 STRING. */
23 extern char *xstrndup (const char *string, size_t n) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_MALLOC;