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| author |   tom <tom@openbsd.org> | 2017-09-10 11:30:43 +0000 |
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| committer | tom <tom@openbsd.org> | 2017-09-10 11:30:43 +0000 |
| commit | 44bd97b4c763b5f1527e73484015d61d64f86a30 (patch) | |
| tree | ddc5150958cdb0af302adcc34cabf4e500911616 /lib/libc | |
| parent | Apply timeout to CAN and RS which also wait for ST. (diff) | |
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sysctl strings include the termingating NUL character in both in and out lengths
Prompted by Nan Xiao noticing the redundancy of bzero+termination - thanks.
ok deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 index 4bcb03b71a2..08095c62466 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.281 2017/08/08 18:15:58 florian Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.282 2017/09/10 11:30:43 tom Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: August 8 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 10 2017 $ .Dt SYSCTL 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ For these operations, the system attempts to round up so that the returned size is large enough for a call to return the data shortly thereafter. .Pp +The terminating NUL character is included in the lengths of string values. +.Pp To set a new value, .Fa newp is set to point to a buffer of length |