[patch 3/8] string.linux-2.6.10/lib/c: documentation strncpy()

[domen@coderock.org]

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


Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
---


 kj-domen/lib/string.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff -L lib/c.bak -puN /dev/null /dev/null
diff -puN lib/string.c~comment-lib_string lib/string.c
--- kj/lib/string.c~comment-lib_string	2005-04-05 12:57:42.000000000 +0200
+++ kj-domen/lib/string.c	2005-04-05 12:57:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -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)
 {
_
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