Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:25:38 +0200 | From | Domen Puncer <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/8] lib/c: documentation strncpy() |
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this clarifys the documentation on the behavier of strncpy().
From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> --- [Geez, again, next time i'll send them to myself first]
kj-domen/lib/string.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN lib/string.c~comment-lib_string lib/string.c --- kj/lib/string.c~comment-lib_string 2005-04-05 12:57:42.000000000 +0200 +++ kj-domen/lib/string.c 2005-04-05 12:57:42.000000000 +0200 @@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcpy); * * The result is not %NUL-terminated if the source exceeds * @count bytes. + * + * In the case where the length of @src is less than that of + * count, the remainder of @dest will be padded with %NUL. + * */ char * strncpy(char * dest,const char *src,size_t count) { _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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