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authorKenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org>2013-01-05 12:55:11 +0000
committerKenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org>2013-01-05 12:55:11 +0000
commit3f475455abd41e59bad43535e442a32b390619eb (patch)
tree6bfc187a799fe1dd1575afc167579cc095430941
parent6b7410fa4ea8d28ea1c94aecb46870be0d657d84 (diff)
Fix verbiage to make it clear that on success the return value of
strftime() is the number of characters printed. POSIX verbiage verified by jmc@, ok jmc@.
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/time/strftime.36
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/time/strftime.3 b/lib/libc/time/strftime.3
index 06923f67f6e..fae70c0cdf0 100644
--- a/lib/libc/time/strftime.3
+++ b/lib/libc/time/strftime.3
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)strftime.3 5.12 (Berkeley) 6/29/91
-.\" $OpenBSD: strftime.3,v 1.29 2012/09/13 11:14:20 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strftime.3,v 1.30 2013/01/05 12:55:10 krw Exp $
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 13 2012 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 5 2013 $
.Dt STRFTIME 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ If the total number of resulting characters, including the terminating
NUL character, is not more than
.Fa maxsize ,
.Fn strftime
-returns the number of characters in the array, not counting the
+returns the number of characters placed in the array, not counting the
terminating NUL.
Otherwise, zero is returned.
.Pp