Re: Issue in man page wcsncpy.3

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

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Hi Helge,

On 12/4/22 10:07, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Without further ado, the following was found:
> 
> Issue:    Is the "L" in the bracket (for the NULL character) correct?

AFAIK, yes.  I never used it myself, but I believe L'\0' generates a "null wide 
character".

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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