Man page - pmstrncpy(3)

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Package:  libpcp3-dev
apt-get install libpcp3-dev

Manuals in package:
• pmprintf(3)
• pmstrncat(3)
• pmsprintf(3)
• pmtrace(3)
• pmgetopt_r(3)
• pmfstring(3)
• pmhash(3)
• pmtime(3)
• pmstrncpy(3)
• pmflush(3)
• pmfault(3)
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Manual

PMSTRNCPY

NAME
C SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO

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NAME

pmstrncpy - safe string copy

C SYNOPSIS

#include <pcp/pmapi.h>

int pmstrncpy(char * dest , size_t destlen , char * src );

cc ... -lpcp

DESCRIPTION

pmstrncpy is safe string copying routine with semantics similar to strncpy (3).

The main differences are that src must be null-byte terminated, destlen is the length of the destination buffer ( dest ) not the length of the source string ( src ), and pmstrncpy ensures that dest is null-byte terminated, even when strlen ( src ) is larger than destlen .

On success, pmstrncpy returns 0, else -1 indicates that src is too big and the result been truncated to ensure dest has no been overrun.

SEE ALSO

pmstrncat (3) and strncpy (3).

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