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-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.