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+/*
+ * linux/tools/lib/string.c
+ *
+ * Copied from linux/lib/string.c, where it is:
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
+ *
+ * More specifically, the first copied function was strtobool, which
+ * was introduced by:
+ *
+ * d0f1fed29e6e ("Add a strtobool function matching semantics of existing in kernel equivalents")
+ * Author: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+
+/**
+ * memdup - duplicate region of memory
+ *
+ * @src: memory region to duplicate
+ * @len: memory region length
+ */
+void *memdup(const void *src, size_t len)
+{
+ void *p = malloc(len);
+
+ if (p)
+ memcpy(p, src, len);
+
+ return p;
+}
+
+/**
+ * strtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values
+ * @s: input string
+ * @res: result
+ *
+ * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0'.
+ * Otherwise it will return -EINVAL. Value pointed to by res is
+ * updated upon finding a match.
+ */
+int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
+{
+ switch (s[0]) {
+ case 'y':
+ case 'Y':
+ case '1':
+ *res = true;
+ break;
+ case 'n':
+ case 'N':
+ case '0':
+ *res = false;
+ break;
+ default:
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * strlcpy - Copy a C-string into a sized buffer
+ * @dest: Where to copy the string to
+ * @src: Where to copy the string from
+ * @size: size of destination buffer
+ *
+ * Compatible with *BSD: the result is always a valid
+ * NUL-terminated string that fits in the buffer (unless,
+ * of course, the buffer size is zero). It does not pad
+ * out the result like strncpy() does.
+ *
+ * If libc has strlcpy() then that version will override this
+ * implementation:
+ */
+size_t __weak strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
+{
+ size_t ret = strlen(src);
+
+ if (size) {
+ size_t len = (ret >= size) ? size - 1 : ret;
+ memcpy(dest, src, len);
+ dest[len] = '\0';
+ }
+ return ret;
+}