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authorschwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2011-07-25 00:38:52 +0000
committerschwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2011-07-25 00:38:52 +0000
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update HISTORY and SEE ALSO for all of string(3), together with various
smaller improvements; jmc@ and nicm@ both ask me to get this in because further tweaking will be easier in-tree
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diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 b/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
index 428e474d430..400eeee622a 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.\" $OpenBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.16 2011/07/25 00:38:53 schwarze Exp $
+.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -29,9 +31,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.15 2007/05/31 19:19:32 jmc Exp $
-.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 25 2011 $
.Dt STRCPY 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ to
.Ql \e0
character).
.Pp
+The
.Fn strncpy
-copies not more than
+function copies not more than
.Fa len
characters into
.Fa dst ,
@@ -141,7 +142,10 @@ is simply:
.Xr memccpy 3 ,
.Xr memcpy 3 ,
.Xr memmove 3 ,
-.Xr strlcpy 3
+.Xr strcat 3 ,
+.Xr strlcpy 3 ,
+.Xr wcscpy 3 ,
+.Xr wcslcpy 3
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Fn strcpy
@@ -149,3 +153,10 @@ and
.Fn strncpy
functions conform to
.St -ansiC .
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn strcpy
+and
+.Fn strncpy
+functions first appeared in
+.At v7 .