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| author | walter harms <wharms@bfs.de> | 2005-05-05 16:16:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-05 16:36:50 -0700 |
| commit | 252795264df50a6c9eee604d29989854d5558139 (patch) | |
| tree | 72ee9019ea2917fcc0feab1ded60d2dc72a7051f /lib/string.c | |
| parent | ebe8b54134314cc31331f6e26f42276cd947d1df (diff) | |
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[PATCH] documentation for strncpy()
this clarifies the documentation on the behavier of strncpy().
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/string.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index 5c8b55af0df6..d886ef157c12 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ 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) { |