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authorwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2009-05-02 09:37:32 +0000
committerwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2009-05-02 09:37:32 +0000
commit3ae928cec96fce466c6cfce4a875652fee045e08 (patch)
treead0e7796506635eb14cd6c0f36622d8bbd993c33 /lib/libc/string
parent1de194650d5ab7d14ec15cd9605fa0fa6f52295e (diff)
Improve formatting and punctuation for "NUL-terminate".
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/strcpy.316
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 b/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
index 9b7a17211d9..daa7b102888 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)strcpy.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
-.\" $NetBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.19 2009/05/02 09:31:08 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.20 2009/05/02 09:37:32 wiz Exp $
.\"
.Dd May 1, 2009
.Dt STRCPY 3
@@ -140,15 +140,13 @@ char chararray[6];
.Pp
Note that it does
.Em not
-.Tn NUL
-terminate
+.Dv NUL Ns No -terminate
.Va chararray
because the length of the source string is greater than or equal
to the length parameter.
.Fn strncpy
.Em only
-.Tn NUL
-terminates
+.Dv NUL Ns No -terminates
the destination string when the length of the source
string is less than the length parameter.
.Pp
@@ -157,15 +155,15 @@ The following copies as many characters from
to
.Va buf
as will fit and
-.Tn NUL
-terminates the result.
+.Dv NUL Ns No -terminates
+the result.
Because
.Fn strncpy
does
.Em not
guarantee to
-.Tn NUL
-terminate the string itself, this must be done explicitly.
+.Dv NUL Ns No -terminate
+the string itself, this must be done explicitly.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
char buf[1024];