XUtils: add safe strncpy implementation

The standard strncpy fails to null-terminate the destination in case
the source is longer than the passed size.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/XUtils.h b/XUtils.h
index 9e5e62cf..6066aa95 100644
--- a/XUtils.h
+++ b/XUtils.h
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ char* String_getToken(const char* line, unsigned short int numMatch);
 
 char* String_readLine(FILE* fd);
 
+/* Always null-terminates dest. Caller must pass a strictly positive size. */
+size_t String_safeStrncpy(char *restrict dest, const char *restrict src, size_t size);
+
 ATTR_FORMAT(printf, 2, 3)
 int xAsprintf(char** strp, const char* fmt, ...);