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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [KJ] string.linux-2.6.10/lib/c: documentation strncpy()
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:34:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <424904E8.1040308@bfs.de> (raw)

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hi list,
this clarifys the documentation on the behavier of strncpy().

re,
	walter



--- string.linux-2.6.10/lib/c.bak	2005-03-29 09:14:31.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.10/lib/string.c	2005-03-29 09:27:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@
   *
   * 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)
  {


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