diff --git a/base/musl/getent.c b/base/musl/getent.c
index 17a767dca..9d14445e5 100644
--- a/base/musl/getent.c
+++ b/base/musl/getent.c
@@ -95,6 +95,19 @@ static int parsenum(const char *word, unsigned long *result)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+#if defined(__GNU_LIBRARY__)
+static inline size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
+{
+	size_t ret = strlen(src);
+	if (size) {
+		size_t len = (ret >= size) ? size - 1 : ret;
+		memcpy(dest, src, len);
+		dest[len] = '\0';
+	}
+	return ret;
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * printfmtstrings --
  *	vprintf(format, ...),