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| author | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 1994-10-11 03:49:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 1994-10-11 03:49:30 +0000 |
| commit | 36a7d72126b16db29f165a94ef96b8aa50a112d1 (patch) | |
| tree | fd83571139c7e54e5ac0c942e6760d880087258e | |
| parent | b76e5ac6585b07044d3f68bc84e83e18a26d9377 (diff) | |
(Copying and Concatenation): Note that when strncpy limits copying it does
not write a null terminator.
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/string.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/manual/string.texi b/manual/string.texi index 476e47e1a2..9169fa3590 100644 --- a/manual/string.texi +++ b/manual/string.texi @@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ This function is similar to @code{strcpy} but always copies exactly @var{size} characters into @var{to}. If the length of @var{from} is more than @var{size}, then @code{strncpy} -copies just the first @var{size} characters. +copies just the first @var{size} characters. Note that in this case +there is no null terminator written into @var{to}. If the length of @var{from} is less than @var{size}, then @code{strncpy} copies all of @var{from}, followed by enough null characters to add up |