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diff --git a/man3/wcsncpy.3 b/man3/wcsncpy.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee04677 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/wcsncpy.3 @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual +.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ +.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html +.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 +.\" +.TH wcsncpy 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +wcsncpy \- copy a fixed-size string of wide characters +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <wchar.h> +.PP +.BI "wchar_t *wcsncpy(wchar_t " dest "[restrict ." n ], +.BI " const wchar_t " src "[restrict ." n ], +.BI " size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR wcsncpy () +function is the wide-character equivalent of the +.BR strncpy (3) +function. +It copies at most +.I n +wide characters from the wide-character +string pointed to by +.IR src , +including the terminating null wide character (L\[aq]\e0\[aq]), +to the array pointed to by +.IR dest . +Exactly +.I n +wide characters are +written at +.IR dest . +If the length \fIwcslen(src)\fP is smaller than +.IR n , +the remaining wide characters in the array +pointed to by +.I dest +are filled +with null wide characters. +If the length \fIwcslen(src)\fP is greater than or equal +to +.IR n , +the string pointed to by +.I dest +will not be terminated by a null wide character. +.PP +The strings may not overlap. +.PP +The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least +.I n +wide +characters at +.IR dest . +.SH RETURN VALUE +.BR wcsncpy () +returns +.IR dest . +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR wcsncpy () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, C99. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR strncpy (3) |