| commit | f51cbcca1c0e12e94590bd9723e3e446ac50c33a | |
| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | |
| Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:47:47 +0000 (13 01:47 +0100) | ||
| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | |
| Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:50:23 +0000 (13 01:50 +0100) | ||
| tree | b4c9bc639da4dcac327a83b23a490257050a758e | treesnapshot (tar.gz zip) |
| parent | 1873da38de4be3d36bb67d011b907f6f774eef82 | commitdiff |
string.3: strncpy(): Talk about bytes, not characters
These functions are also the way to copy multibyte strings, so be
generic and say that they just copy bytes. Not every byte is a valid
character in (for example) UTF-8 locales.
Cowritten-by: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
These functions are also the way to copy multibyte strings, so be
generic and say that they just copy bytes. Not every byte is a valid
character in (for example) UTF-8 locales.
Cowritten-by: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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