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NAMEstrcpy, strncpy - copy a string
#include <string.h> char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src); char *strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n);
DESCRIPTIONThe fBstrcpy()fP function copies the string pointed to by fIsrcfP (including the terminating ` ' character) to the array pointed to by fIdestfP. The strings may not overlap, and the destination string fIdestfP must be large enough to receive the copy.
The fBstrncpy()fP function is similar, except that not more than fInfP bytes of fIsrcfP are copied. Thus, if there is no null byte among the first fInfP bytes of fIsrcfP, the result will not be null-terminated.
RETURN VALUEThe fBstrcpy()fP and fBstrncpy()fP functions return a pointer to the destination string fIdestfP.
BUGSIf the destination string of a fBstrcpy()fP is not large enough (that is, if the programmer was stupid/lazy, and failed to check the size before copying) then anything might happen. Overflowing fixed length strings is a favourite cracker technique.
CONFORMING TOSVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899
SEE ALSObcopy(3), memccpy(3), memcpy(3), memmove(3), wcscpy(3), wcsncpy(3)