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DUPLOCALE(3)             BSD Library Functions Manual             DUPLOCALE(3)

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.  Pass-ing Passing
     ing 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)

BSD                             March 11, 2005                             BSD