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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2018-08-04 11:30:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2018-08-04 11:30:53 +0200 |
| commit | 51d8bd5745657c85c5b24b34c644fd37e241436c (patch) | |
| tree | d678c58bbfa87f1ff8bebea9c43dc6dcee04d784 | |
| parent | bf8fc2759bd43c99e360ba0b50cedb9828f8ab62 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-51d8bd5745657c85c5b24b34c644fd37e241436c.tar.gz | |
string.3, strlen.3, strnlen.3: Use 'bytes' not 'characters'
This is inline with POSIX terminology. See also the earlier
commit a00b7454b8234ff73ac4a78e9059558596b1b788 (in 2012)
which fixed most of these cases.
Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/string.3 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/strlen.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/strnlen.3 | 2 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man3/string.3 b/man3/string.3 index e6cdbfe5a8..708ea3a201 100644 --- a/man3/string.3 +++ b/man3/string.3 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ ignoring case. .BI "int strncasecmp(const char *" s1 ", const char *" s2 ", size_t " n ); Compare the first .I n -characters of the strings +bytes of the strings .I s1 and .I s2 @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Return the length of the string .BI "char *strncat(char *" dest ", const char *" src ", size_t " n ); Append at most .I n -characters from the string +bytes from the string .I src to the string .IR dest , @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Transforms .I src to the current locale and copies the first .I n -characters to +bytes to .IR dest . .SH DESCRIPTION The string functions perform operations on null-terminated diff --git a/man3/strlen.3 b/man3/strlen.3 index 972b7c2608..397d225a1c 100644 --- a/man3/strlen.3 +++ b/man3/strlen.3 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ excluding the terminating null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq). .SH RETURN VALUE The .BR strlen () -function returns the number of characters in the string pointed to by +function returns the number of bytes in the string pointed to by .IR s . .SH ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see diff --git a/man3/strnlen.3 b/man3/strnlen.3 index cf052ae785..7675effb7b 100644 --- a/man3/strnlen.3 +++ b/man3/strnlen.3 @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ _GNU_SOURCE .SH DESCRIPTION The .BR strnlen () -function returns the number of characters in the string +function returns the number of bytes in the string pointed to by .IR s , excluding the terminating null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq), |