--- _pylibmcmodule.c.orig	2012-03-07 11:00:09.000000000 -0500
+++ _pylibmcmodule.c	2012-03-07 11:03:21.000000000 -0500
@@ -46,6 +46,25 @@
     { Py_INCREF(obj); \
       PyModule_AddObject(mod, nam, obj); }
 
+/**
+ * Copy at most @p size characters from @p src, plus a terminating nul.
+ **/
+char *strndup(const char *src, size_t size); 
+char *strndup(const char *src, size_t size){
+  size_t l = strlen(src);
+  char *r = NULL;
+
+  if (l < size)
+    return strdup(src);
+
+  r = (char *) malloc(size+1);
+  if (r == NULL)
+    return NULL;
+
+  strncpy(r, src, size);
+  r[size] ='\0';
+  return r;
+}
 
 /* {{{ Type methods */
 static PylibMC_Client *PylibMC_ClientType_new(PyTypeObject *type,