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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2018-08-04 11:30:53 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2018-08-04 11:30:53 +0200
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downloadman-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>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 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