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-'\" t
-.\" Copyright 2022 Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
-.\"
-.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
-.\"
-.TH stpncpy 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
-.SH NAME
-stpncpy, strncpy
-\- zero a fixed-width buffer and
-copy a string into a character sequence with truncation
-and zero the rest of it
-.SH LIBRARY
-Standard C library
-.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.nf
-.B #include <string.h>
-.PP
-.BI "char *strncpy(char " dst "[restrict ." sz "], \
-const char *restrict " src ,
-.BI " size_t " sz );
-.BI "char *stpncpy(char " dst "[restrict ." sz "], \
-const char *restrict " src ,
-.BI " size_t " sz );
-.fi
-.PP
-.RS -4
-Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
-.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
-.RE
-.PP
-.BR stpncpy ():
-.nf
- Since glibc 2.10:
- _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
- Before glibc 2.10:
- _GNU_SOURCE
-.fi
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-These functions copy the string pointed to by
-.I src
-into a null-padded character sequence at the fixed-width buffer pointed to by
-.IR dst .
-If the destination buffer,
-limited by its size,
-isn't large enough to hold the copy,
-the resulting character sequence is truncated.
-For the difference between the two functions, see RETURN VALUE.
-.PP
-An implementation of these functions might be:
-.PP
-.in +4n
-.EX
-char *
-strncpy(char *restrict dst, const char *restrict src, size_t sz)
-{
- stpncpy(dst, src, sz);
- return dst;
-}
-\&
-char *
-stpncpy(char *restrict dst, const char *restrict src, size_t sz)
-{
- bzero(dst, sz);
- return mempcpy(dst, src, strnlen(src, sz));
-}
-.EE
-.in
-.SH RETURN VALUE
-.TP
-.BR strncpy ()
-returns
-.IR dst .
-.TP
-.BR stpncpy ()
-returns a pointer to
-one after the last character in the destination character sequence.
-.SH ATTRIBUTES
-For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
-.BR attributes (7).
-.ad l
-.nh
-.TS
-allbox;
-lbx lb lb
-l l l.
-Interface Attribute Value
-T{
-.BR stpncpy (),
-.BR strncpy ()
-T} Thread safety MT-Safe
-.TE
-.hy
-.ad
-.sp 1
-.SH STANDARDS
-.TP
-.BR strncpy ()
-C11, POSIX.1-2008.
-.TP
-.BR stpncpy ()
-POSIX.1-2008.
-.SH STANDARDS
-.TP
-.BR strncpy ()
-C89, POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
-.TP
-.BR stpncpy ()
-glibc 1.07.
-POSIX.1-2008.
-.SH CAVEATS
-The name of these functions is confusing.
-These functions produce a null-padded character sequence,
-not a string (see
-.BR string_copying (7)).
-.PP
-It's impossible to distinguish truncation by the result of the call,
-from a character sequence that just fits the destination buffer;
-truncation should be detected by
-comparing the length of the input string
-with the size of the destination buffer.
-.PP
-If you're going to use this function in chained calls,
-it would be useful to develop a similar function that accepts
-a pointer to the end (one after the last element) of the destination buffer
-instead of its size.
-.SH EXAMPLES
-.\" SRC BEGIN (stpncpy.c)
-.EX
-#include <err.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <string.h>
-\&
-int
-main(void)
-{
- char *p;
- char buf1[20];
- char buf2[20];
- size_t len;
-\&
- if (sizeof(buf2) < strlen("Hello world!"))
- warnx("strncpy: truncating character sequence");
- strncpy(buf2, "Hello world!", sizeof(buf2));
- len = strnlen(buf2, sizeof(buf2));
-\&
- printf("[len = %zu]: ", len);
- printf("%.*s\en", (int) len, buf2); // "Hello world!"
-\&
- if (sizeof(buf1) < strlen("Hello world!"))
- warnx("stpncpy: truncating character sequence");
- p = stpncpy(buf1, "Hello world!", sizeof(buf1));
- len = p \- buf1;
-\&
- printf("[len = %zu]: ", len);
- printf("%.*s\en", (int) len, buf1); // "Hello world!"
-\&
- exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
-}
-.EE
-.\" SRC END
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR wcpncpy (3),
-.BR string_copying (7)