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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-17 10:52:03 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-17 10:52:03 +0000
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
.\" 386BSD man pages
.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:54:31 1993, Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.TH string 3 2023-01-22 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH string 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
stpcpy, strcasecmp, strcat, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn,
strdup, strfry, strlen, strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strncasecmp, strpbrk,
@@ -179,21 +179,14 @@ to the current locale and copies the first
.I n
bytes to
.IR dest .
-.SS Obsolete functions
.TP
.nf
.BI "char *strncpy(char " dest "[restrict ." n "], \
const char " src "[restrict ." n ],
.BI " size_t " n );
.fi
-Copy at most
-.I n
-bytes from string
-.I src
-to
-.IR dest ,
-returning a pointer to the start of
-.IR dest .
+Fill a fixed-size buffer with leading non-null bytes from a source array,
+padding with null bytes as needed.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The string functions perform operations on null-terminated
strings.