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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string/strcpy.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 b/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 index 8304508df61..504f42f2bae 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.12 2003/06/02 20:18:38 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.13 2005/02/25 03:12:44 cloder Exp $ .\" .Dd June 29, 1991 .Dt STRCPY 3 @@ -98,12 +98,12 @@ to .Dq abcdef and does .Em not -null terminate +NUL terminate .Va chararray because the source string is >= the length parameter. .Fn strncpy .Em only -null terminates the destination string when the length of the source +NUL terminates the destination string when the length of the source string is less than the length parameter. .Bd -literal -offset indent (void)strncpy(chararray, "abcdefgh", 6); @@ -113,12 +113,12 @@ The following copies as many characters from .Va input to .Va buf -as will fit and null terminates the result. +as will fit and NUL terminates the result. Because .Fn strncpy does .Em not -guarantee to null terminate the string itself, we must do this by hand. +guarantee to NUL terminate the string itself, we must do this by hand. .Bd -literal -offset indent char buf[BUFSIZ]; |