Commit 25279526 authored May 05, 2005 by walter harms Committed by Linus Torvalds May 05, 2005

[PATCH] documentation for strncpy()



this clarifies the documentation on the behavier of strncpy().

Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent ebe8b541

lib/string.c

+4 −0

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		@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcpy);
		*
		* The result is not %NUL-terminated if the source exceeds
		* @count bytes.
		*
		* In the case where the length of @src is less than that of
		* count, the remainder of @dest will be padded with %NUL.
		*
		*/
		char * strncpy(char * dest,const char *src,size_t count)
		{