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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-11-21 16:55:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-11-21 19:30:48 +0100 |
| commit | 9f3c55b0d31c063082f0887f7032b0302a252951 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e485b362a2b2c0f1739d1965e2f3ba4fe061298 | |
| parent | 3f8d7b04cdf46ee00e62f0c5bf67fc3227a3eb12 (diff) | |
strncat.3: Reword description
While rewording, use "byte" instead of "character". This function is
also used with multi-byte characters, so character can be confusing.
Suggested-by: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cowritten-by: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/strncat.3 | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/strncat.3 b/man3/strncat.3 index 54e0d7bb3..b9514cc0e 100644 --- a/man3/strncat.3 +++ b/man3/strncat.3 @@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ .\" .TH strncat 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" .SH NAME -strncat \- append a null-padded character sequence into a string +strncat +\- +append non-null bytes from a source array to a string, +and null-terminate the result .SH LIBRARY Standard C library .RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) @@ -17,9 +20,11 @@ Standard C library .BI " size_t " ssize ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION -This function appends the input character sequence -contained in a null-padded fixed-size buffer, -into a string at the buffer pointed to by +This function appends at most +.I ssize +non-null bytes from the array pointed to by +.I src +to the end of the string pointed to by .IR dst . .I dst must point to a string contained in a buffer that is large enough, |