centos man page for strncpy

STRNCPY(9)						     Basic C Library Functions							STRNCPY(9)

NAME
       strncpy - Copy a length-limited, NUL-terminated string

SYNOPSIS
       char * strncpy(char * dest, const char * src, size_t count);

ARGUMENTS
       dest
	   Where to copy the string to

       src
	   Where to copy the string from

       count
	   The maximum number of bytes to copy

DESCRIPTION
       The result is not NUL-terminated if the source exceeds count bytes.

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

COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10					     June 2014								STRNCPY(9)