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authorMattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>2015-11-17 03:30:10 +0100
committerMattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>2015-11-17 03:30:10 +0100
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+/**
+ * slibc — Yet another C library
+ * Copyright © 2015 Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+#include <string.h>
+
+
+
+/**
+ * Copy a memory segment to another, non-overlapping, segment,
+ * stop when a NUL byte is encountered.
+ *
+ * This is a GNU extension.
+ *
+ * @param whither The destination memory segment.
+ * @param whence The source memory segment.
+ * @param maxlen The maximum number of bytes to copy.
+ * NOTE that if the resulting string at least this
+ * long, no NUL byte will be written to `whither'.
+ * On the otherhand, if the resultnig string is
+ * shorter, `whither` will be filled with NUL bytes
+ * until this amount of bytes have been written.
+ * @return `whither` plus the number of written bytes,
+ * excluding NUL bytes, is returned.
+ */
+char* stpncpy(char* restrict whither, const char* restrict whence, size_t maxlen)
+{
+ size_t n = strnlen(whence, maxlen);
+ memcpy(whither, whence, n);
+ memset(whither, 0, maxlen - n);
+ return whither + n;
+}
+