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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2011-09-28 06:16:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2011-09-28 06:20:52 +0200 |
| commit | 71d9e7ae77e74475825e2850c1daef779b51f978 (patch) | |
| tree | fd4ac0cd38c5852ddb8aaa7beaccbbb1b53f34fc /man3/strcat.3 | |
| parent | e9c23bc636426366d659809bc99cd84661e86464 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-71d9e7ae77e74475825e2850c1daef779b51f978.tar.gz | |
gets.3, mbtowc.3, printf.3, puts.3, scanf.3, stpcpy.3, stpncpy.3, strcat.3, strlen.3, strnlen.3, strsep.3, strstr.3, strxfrm.3, utmp.5: Global fix: consistent use of "null byte"
Bring more consistency to the discussion of
"[terminating] null byte"
by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
"[terminating] null byte ('\0')".
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/strcat.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/strcat.3 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man3/strcat.3 b/man3/strcat.3 index 4437f17aea..a6ec1a1c15 100644 --- a/man3/strcat.3 +++ b/man3/strcat.3 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:11:47 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" 2007-06-15, Marc Boyer <marc.boyer@enseeiht.fr> + mtk .\" Improve discussion of strncat(). -.TH STRCAT 3 2010-09-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH STRCAT 3 2011-09-28 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME strcat, strncat \- concatenate two strings .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ strcat, strncat \- concatenate two strings The .BR strcat () function appends the \fIsrc\fP string to the -\fIdest\fP string, overwriting the null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq) at the end of +\fIdest\fP string, +overwriting the terminating null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq) at the end of \fIdest\fP, and then adds a terminating null byte. The strings may not overlap, and the \fIdest\fP string must have enough space for the result. |