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-rw-r--r--man7/string_copying.76
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man7/string_copying.7 b/man7/string_copying.7
index ab9199a68..34031ea02 100644
--- a/man7/string_copying.7
+++ b/man7/string_copying.7
@@ -223,8 +223,7 @@ It only requires to check for truncation once after all chained calls.
.BR strlcpy (3bsd)
and
.BR strlcat (3bsd)
-are designed to crash if the input string is invalid
-(doesn't contain a terminating null byte).
+are similar, but less efficient when chained.
.IP \[bu]
.BR stpncpy (3)
and
@@ -410,9 +409,6 @@ isn't large enough to hold the copy,
the resulting string is truncated
(but it is guaranteed to be null-terminated).
They return the length of the total string they tried to create.
-These functions force a SIGSEGV if the
-.I src
-pointer is not a string.
.IP
.BR stpecpy (3)
is a simpler alternative to these functions.