compat/strlcpy.c

   1 /*****************************************************************************
   2  * strlcpy.c: BSD strlcpy() replacement
   3  *****************************************************************************
   4  * Copyright © 2006 Rémi Denis-Courmont
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  20
  21 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
  22 # include <config.h>
  23 #endif
  24
  25 #include <stddef.h>
  26
  27 /**
  28  * Copy a string to a sized buffer. The result is always nul-terminated
  29  * (contrary to strncpy()).
  30  *
  31  * @param dest destination buffer
  32  * @param src string to be copied
  33  * @param len maximum number of characters to be copied plus one for the
  34  * terminating nul.
  35  *
  36  * @return strlen(src)
  37  */
  38 size_t strlcpy (char *tgt, const char *src, size_t bufsize)
  39 {
  40     size_t length;
  41
  42     for (length = 1; (length < bufsize) && *src; length++)
  43         *tgt++ = *src++;
  44
  45     if (bufsize)
  46         *tgt = '\0';
  47
  48     while (*src++)
  49         length++;
  50
  51     return length - 1;
  52 }