NAME

       strcpy, strncpy - copy a string

SYNOPSIS

       #include <string.h>

       char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src);

       char *strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n);

DESCRIPTION

       The  strcpy() function copies the string pointed to be src (including the terminating `\0'
       character) to the array pointed to  by  dest.   The  strings  may  not  overlap,  and  the
       destination string dest must be large enough to receive the copy.

       The  strncpy()  function  is similar, except that not more than n bytes of src are copied.
       Thus, if there is no null byte among the first n bytes of src, the result wil not be null-
       terminated.

       In  the case where the length of src is less than that of n, the remainder of dest will be
       padded with nulls.

RETURN VALUE

       The strcpy() and strncpy() functions return a pointer to the destination string dest.

BUGS

       If the destination string of a strcpy() 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 TO

       SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO

       bcopy(3), memccpy(3), memcpy(3), memmove(3)