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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-06-04 19:14:57 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-06-04 19:14:57 +0000
commitea3aa758f0613eb4538aa90000b1fefafcdc6976 (patch)
tree6c58fae8633b1642bfe1f4b5f0ea28f071694465 /lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
parente288cb3c3b2f3f37b0ec44648cf15b3ce1fa3299 (diff)
some repairs, add example to strdup(3) page
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string/strcpy.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/strcpy.314
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 b/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
index 80d528caefc..75727223ff0 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
@@ -33,13 +33,14 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.6 1999/05/23 14:11:03 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.7 1999/06/04 19:14:56 aaron Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 29, 1991
.Dt STRCPY 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
-.Nm strcpy
+.Nm strcpy,
+.Nm strncpy
.Nd copy strings
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <string.h>
@@ -61,7 +62,6 @@ to
.Ql \e0
character).
.Pp
-The
.Fn strncpy
copies not more than
.Fa len
@@ -105,10 +105,10 @@ to
.Dq Li abcdef
and does
.Em not
-NUL-terminate chararray because the source string is >= the length parameter.
+null terminate chararray because the source string is >= the length parameter.
.Fn strncpy
.Em only
-NUL-terminates the destination string when then length of the source
+null terminates the destination string when then length of the source
string is less than the length parameter.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
(void)strncpy(chararray, "abcdefgh", 6);
@@ -118,11 +118,11 @@ The following copies as many characters from
.Dq Li input
to
.Dq Li buf
-as will fit and NUL-terminates the result. Because
+as will fit and null terminates the result. Because
.Fn strncpy
does
.Em not
-guarantee to NUL-terminate the string itself, we must do this by hand.
+guarantee to null terminate the string itself, we must do this by hand.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
char buf[BUFSIZ];