Re: Issue in man page wcsncpy.3

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi Helge,

On 3/11/23 18:13, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Without further ado, the following was found:
> 
> Issue:    null wide characters → NUL wide characters?

This is incorrect.  NUL is an ASCII character, which hasn't wide
characters.  It's correct as "null wide characters", a.k.a. L'\0'.

Cheers,

Alex

> 
> "The B<wcsncpy>()  function is the wide-character equivalent of the "
> "B<strncpy>(3)  function.  It copies at most I<n> wide characters from the "
> "wide-character string pointed to by I<src>, including the terminating null "
> "wide character (L\\[aq]\\e0\\[aq]), to the array pointed to by I<dest>.  "
> "Exactly I<n> wide characters are written at I<dest>.  If the length "
> "I<wcslen(src)> is smaller than I<n>, the remaining wide characters in the "
> "array pointed to by I<dest> are filled with null wide characters.  If the "
> "length I<wcslen(src)> is greater than or equal to I<n>, the string pointed "
> "to by I<dest> will not be terminated by a null wide character."

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