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.\" $OpenBSD: strlcpy.3,v 1.18 2005/08/06 03:24:19 jaredy Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998, 2000 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
.\"
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.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
.\"
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.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
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.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
.Dt STRLCPY 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm strlcpy ,
.Nm strlcat
.Nd size-bounded string copying and concatenation
.Sh LIBRARY
.ds str-Lb-libbsd Utility functions from BSD systems (libbsd, \-lbsd)
.Lb libbsd
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In bsd/string.h
.Ft size_t
.Fn strlcpy "char *dst" "const char *src" "size_t size"
.Ft size_t
.Fn strlcat "char *dst" "const char *src" "size_t size"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn strlcpy
and
.Fn strlcat
functions copy and concatenate strings respectively.
They are designed
to be safer, more consistent, and less error prone replacements for
.Xr strncpy 3
and
.Xr strncat 3 .
Unlike those functions,
.Fn strlcpy
and
.Fn strlcat
take the full size of the buffer (not just the length) and guarantee to
NUL-terminate the result (as long as
.Fa size
is larger than 0 or, in the case of
.Fn strlcat ,
as long as there is at least one byte free in
.Fa dst ) .
Note that a byte for the NUL should be included in
.Fa size .
Also note that
.Fn strlcpy
and
.Fn strlcat
only operate on true
.Dq C
strings.
This means that for
.Fn strlcpy
.Fa src
must be NUL-terminated and for
.Fn strlcat
both
.Fa src
and
.Fa dst
must be NUL-terminated.
.Pp
The
.Fn strlcpy
function copies up to
.Fa size
- 1 characters from the NUL-terminated string
.Fa src
to
.Fa dst ,
NUL-terminating the result.
.Pp
The
.Fn strlcat
function appends the NUL-terminated string
.Fa src
to the end of
.Fa dst .
It will append at most
.Fa size
- strlen(dst) - 1 bytes, NUL-terminating the result.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn strlcpy
and
.Fn strlcat
functions return the total length of the string they tried to create.
For
.Fn strlcpy
that means the length of
.Fa src .
For
.Fn strlcat
that means the initial length of
.Fa dst
plus
the length of
.Fa src .
While this may seem somewhat confusing, it was done to make
truncation detection simple.
.Pp
Note, however, that if
.Fn strlcat
traverses
.Fa size
characters without finding a NUL, the length of the string is considered
to be
.Fa size
and the destination string will not be NUL-terminated (since there was
no space for the NUL).
This keeps
.Fn strlcat
from running off the end of a string.
In practice this should not happen (as it means that either
.Fa size
is incorrect or that
.Fa dst
is not a proper
.Dq C
string).
The check exists to prevent potential security problems in incorrect code.
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following code fragment illustrates the simple case:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
char *s, *p, buf[BUFSIZ];
\&...
(void)strlcpy(buf, s, sizeof(buf));
(void)strlcat(buf, p, sizeof(buf));
.Ed
.Pp
To detect truncation, perhaps while building a pathname, something
like the following might be used:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
char *dir, *file, pname[MAXPATHLEN];
\&...
if (strlcpy(pname, dir, sizeof(pname)) >= sizeof(pname))
goto toolong;
if (strlcat(pname, file, sizeof(pname)) >= sizeof(pname))
goto toolong;
.Ed
.Pp
Since it is known how many characters were copied the first time, things
can be sped up a bit by using a copy instead of an append:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
char *dir, *file, pname[MAXPATHLEN];
size_t n;
\&...
n = strlcpy(pname, dir, sizeof(pname));
if (n >= sizeof(pname))
goto toolong;
if (strlcpy(pname + n, file, sizeof(pname) - n) >= sizeof(pname) - n)
goto toolong;
.Ed
.Pp
However, one may question the validity of such optimizations, as they
defeat the whole purpose of
.Fn strlcpy
and
.Fn strlcat .
As a matter of fact, the first version of this manual page got it wrong.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr snprintf 3 ,
.Xr strncat 3 ,
.Xr strncpy 3
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn strlcpy
and
.Fn strlcat
functions first appeared in
.Ox 2.4 ,
and made their appearance in
.Fx 3.3 .
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