NAME

duplocale — Duplicate existing locale

SYNOPSIS

#include <xlocale.h>

locale_t
duplocale(locale_t loc);

DESCRIPTION

Duplicates an existing locale_t. Sub-structures are shared between the two locale_t structures. Passing NULL will duplicate the current locale. Passing LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE will duplicate the global locale.

RETURN VALUES

Returns a duplicated locale_t, or NULL on error. Duplicated locales should be freed with freelocale(3).

SEE ALSO

freelocale(3), newlocale(3), querylocale(3), uselocale(3), xlocale(3)