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From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wharms@bfs.de
Subject: Re: [patch 3/8] lib/c: documentation strncpy()
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:25:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050408182538.GA26061@nd47.coderock.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050408075057.3C9EE1EE91@trashy.coderock.org>

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)
 {
_

      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-08 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-08  7:50 [patch 3/8] string.linux-2.6.10/lib/c: documentation strncpy() domen
2005-04-08 18:25 ` Domen Puncer [this message]

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