From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
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>
---
25-akpm/lib/string.c | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN lib/string.c~lib-c-documentation-strncpy lib/string.c
--- 25/lib/string.c~lib-c-documentation-strncpy Fri Apr 8 16:30:18 2005
+++ 25-akpm/lib/string.c Fri Apr 8 16:30:18 2005
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ 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)
{
_