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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-05-13 17:04:44 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-05-13 17:04:44 +0000
commit99d2ba46f95f9f99286b4c66576c4607669b0e7f (patch)
tree4960c6385ba07c7d93b00241fe319121b7073f4f /lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
parentadf6f10b8228950ceea7211942556cdb36ae4e72 (diff)
For strncpy(), dst is not NUL terminated if strlen(src) >= len.
Also fix a typo; adapted from a patch by Moritz Jodeit
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string/strcpy.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/strcpy.311
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 b/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
index 1dbeafa6e86..d3c095916ba 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.10 2000/04/21 15:24:20 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.11 2002/05/13 17:04:43 millert Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 29, 1991
.Dt STRCPY 3
@@ -76,11 +76,10 @@ characters long, and
.Em not
terminating
.Fa dst
-if
+if the length of
.Fa src
-is more than
-.Fa len
-characters long.
+is greater than or equal to
+.Fa len .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn strcpy
@@ -108,7 +107,7 @@ null terminate
because the source string is >= the length parameter.
.Fn strncpy
.Em only
-null terminates the destination string when then length of the source
+null terminates the destination string when the length of the source
string is less than the length parameter.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
(void)strncpy(chararray, "abcdefgh", 6);