From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 23:16:20 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] documentation for strncpy()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.12-rc4~32
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=252795264df50a6c9eee604d29989854d5558139;p=linux-2.6

[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>
---

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 5c8b55af0d..d886ef157c 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -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)
 {