[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>

[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>
walter harms · Linus Torvalds
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lib/string.c
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@
  *
  * 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)
 {
...	...	@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@
86	86	*
87	87	* The result is not %NUL-terminated if the source exceeds
88	88	* @count bytes.
	89	+ *
	90	+ * In the case where the length of @src is less than that of
	91	+ * count, the remainder of @dest will be padded with %NUL.
	92	+ *
89	93	*/
90	94	char * strncpy(char * dest,const char *src,size_t count)
91	95	{