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| author |   schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2011-07-25 00:38:52 +0000 |
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| committer | schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2011-07-25 00:38:52 +0000 |
| commit | 8c40de08f9d12a182e23e357bcca21c5be683dd9 (patch) | |
| tree | df554e154d9ded444e70f01eb8a84b1212071f78 /lib/libc/string/wcscpy.3 | |
| parent | occured -> occurred; (diff) | |
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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
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string/wcscpy.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/wcscpy.3 | 34 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/wcscpy.3 b/lib/libc/string/wcscpy.3 index a71d54f886a..dcc375acbf1 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/wcscpy.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/wcscpy.3 @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: wcscpy.3,v 1.2 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: wcscpy.3,v 1.1 2011/07/09 16:32:11 nicm Exp $ -.\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 9 2011 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 25 2011 $ .Dt WCSCPY 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn wcscpy -function copies the wide string +and +.Fn wcsncpy +functions copy the wide string .Fa src to .Fa dst @@ -83,6 +85,9 @@ and functions return .Fa dst . .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr strcpy 3 , +.Xr strlcpy 3 , +.Xr wcscat 3 , .Xr wcslcpy 3 , .Xr wmemcpy 3 , .Xr wmemmove 3 @@ -95,3 +100,24 @@ functions conform to .St -isoC-99 and were first introduced in .St -isoC-amd1 . +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn wcscpy +and +.Fn wcsncpy +functions were ported from +.Nx +and first appeared in +.Ox 3.8 . +.Sh CAVEATS +Using the functions +.Fn wcscpy +and +.Fn wcsncpy +is very error-prone with respect to buffer overflows; +see the EXAMPLES section in +.Xr strcpy 3 +for correct usage. +Using +.Xr wcslcpy 3 +is a better choice in most cases. |