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On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:18:08AM +0300, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> lib/str.c contains strlcpy and strlcat "implementations". I'd like to
> have real implementations there to use strlcpy mostly. It affects
> only Linux AFAIK, *BSD, Solaris, HP-UX etc. have these functions.
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-01/msg00002.html
>
> Problem for me is where to get implementations. I know, BSD licence

size_t
strlcpy(char *dst, const char *src0, size_t size)
{
const char *src;
for (src = src0; *src != '\0' && size > 1; size--)
*dst++ = *src++;
if (size >= 1)
*dst = '\0';
while (*src++ != '\0');
return src - src0;
}

size_t
strlcat(char *dst0, const char *src, size_t size)
{
char *dst;

for (dst = dst0; *dst != '\0' && size >= 1; size--)
dst++;
if (size >= 1)
return (dst - dst0) + strlcpy(dst, src, size);
return dst - dst0;
}

These are original implementations right off the top of my head.
Test them? You may put them under two-clause BSD license or GPLv2,
whichever you prefer.

Dave

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