From 31dbf5249c74bc884a4f1c6fbb3f13ae58d67022 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: cvs2svn Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:24:02 +0000 Subject: This commit was manufactured by cvs2git to create tag 'OPENBSD_2_5_BASE'. --- src/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 154 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 (limited to 'src/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3') diff --git a/src/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 b/src/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..626a06af7b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3, +.\" on Information Processing Systems. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $OpenBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.5 1999/03/06 23:36:27 millert Exp $ +.\" +.Dd June 29, 1991 +.Dt STRCPY 3 +.Os BSD 4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm strcpy +.Nd copy strings +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Fd #include +.Ft char * +.Fn strcpy "char *dst" "const char *src" +.Ft char * +.Fn strncpy "char *dst" "const char *src" "size_t len" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn strcpy +and +.Fn strncpy +functions +copy the string +.Fa src +to +.Fa dst +(including the terminating +.Ql \e0 +character). +.Pp +The +.Fn strncpy +copies not more than +.Fa len +characters into +.Fa dst , +appending +.Ql \e0 +characters if +.Fa src +is less than +.Fa len +characters long, and +.Em not +terminating +.Fa dst +if +.Fa src +is more than +.Fa len +characters long. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +The +.Fn strcpy +and +.Fn strncpy +functions +return +.Fa dst . +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following sets +.Dq Li chararray +to +.Dq Li abc\e0\e0\e0 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +(void)strncpy(chararray, "abc", 6); +.Ed +.Pp +The following sets +.Dq Li chararray +to +.Dq Li abcdef +and does +.Em not +NUL-terminate chararray because the source string is >= the length parameter. +.Fn strncpy +.Em only +NUL-terminates the destination string when then length of the source +string is less than the length parameter. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +(void)strncpy(chararray, "abcdefgh", 6); +.Ed +.Pp +The following copies as many characters from +.Dq Li input +to +.Dq Li buf +as will fit and NUL-terminates the result. Because +.Fn strncpy +does +.Em not +guarantee to NUL-terminate the string itself, we must do this by hand. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +char buf[BUFSIZ]; + +(void)strncpy(buf, input, sizeof(buf) - 1); +buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = '\e0'; +.Ed +.Pp +Note that +.Xr strlcpy 3 +is a better choice for this kind of operation. The equivalent using +.Xr strlcpy 3 +is simply: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +(void)strlcpy(buf, input, sizeof(buf)); +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr bcopy 3 , +.Xr memccpy 3 , +.Xr memcpy 3 , +.Xr memmove 3 , +.Xr strlcpy 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn strcpy +and +.Fn strncpy +functions +conform to +.St -ansiC . -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g6feb