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

NAME
     duplocale -- duplicate an locale

LIBRARY
     Standard C	Library	(libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <locale.h>

     locale_t
     duplocale(locale_t	locale);

DESCRIPTION
     Duplicates	an existing locale_t returning a new locale_t that refers to
     the same locale values but	has an independent internal state.  Various
     functions,	such as	mblen(3) require a persistent state.  These functions
     formerly used static variables and	calls to them from multiple threads
     had undefined behavior.  They now use fields in the locale_t associated
     with the current thread by	uselocale(3).  These calls are therefore only
     thread safe on threads with a unique per-thread locale.  The locale re-
     turned by this call must be freed with freelocale(3).

SEE ALSO
     freelocale(3), localeconv(3), newlocale(3), querylocale(3), uselocale(3),
     xlocale(3)

STANDARDS
     This function conforms to IEEE Std	1003.1-2008 ("POSIX.1").

BUGS
     Ideally, uselocale(3) should make a copy of the locale_t implicitly to
     ensure thread safety, and a copy of the global locale should be installed
     lazily on each thread.  The FreeBSD implementation	does not do this, for
     compatibility with	Darwin.

BSD			      September	17, 2011			   BSD

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