Honestly, when I wrote the post, I thought I recalled that Windows had strdup (Windows does include some limited POSIX functionality, IIRC; e.g., "select" defin

Honestly, when I wrote the post, I thought I recalled that Windows had strdup (Windows does include some limited POSIX functionality, IIRC; e.g., "select" definitely exists, and is also a POSIX function, so I figured surely strdup was there.) MSDN seems to indicate that Windows does in fact have strdup — and that it's "deprecated" in favor of "_strdup", which appears to do exactly the same thing as strdup… what on earth is going on here?