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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2022-12-05 00:46:35 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2022-12-05 00:46:46 +0100
commit30d458d1a6261221bad15e58f1862e0dda24f4a0 (patch)
treed0dbe0f0d81b5798189b71a0bf21e2b63fefdcd4
parent8450300f93865466375a728f75ce004e6e95f247 (diff)
strncpy.3: Rename CAVEATS to BUGS
Those are not caveats, but actual bugs. This function was misdesigned. Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--man3/strncpy.34
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man3/strncpy.3 b/man3/strncpy.3
index 87f910f56..fc1d964c7 100644
--- a/man3/strncpy.3
+++ b/man3/strncpy.3
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ But
.BR stpncpy (3)
is better for this purpose,
since it detects truncation.
-See CAVEATS below.
+See BUGS below.
.SH RETURN VALUE
The
.BR strncpy ()
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
-.SH CAVEATS
+.SH BUGS
.BR strncpy ()
has a misleading name.
It doesn't produce a (null-terminated) string;