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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-06-18 22:30:00 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-06-18 22:30:00 +0000
commit49a721b60be01ec9184fd667a266a3adef950926 (patch)
tree35993a92ef7e5a211c1880c31a4dd823b907b14b /lib/libc
parent94cb8e20aa7a5c22b227f8edd5ea62b488d4b0f2 (diff)
Clarify that if strlcat() does not find a NUL within siz byte it
will not NUL terminate either.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/strlcpy.36
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3 b/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
index 3d50e0b0f68..8bb1b3a1e28 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: strlcpy.3,v 1.12 2001/05/07 15:51:54 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strlcpy.3,v 1.13 2001/06/18 22:29:59 millert Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998, 2000 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -125,7 +125,9 @@ traverses
.Fa size
characters without finding a NUL, the length of the string is considered
to be
-.Fa size .
+.Fa size
+and the destination string will not be NUL-terminated (since there was
+no space for the NUL).
This keeps
.Fn strlcat
from running off the end of a string.