Re: Issue in man page wcsncpy.3

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Hi Helge,

On 12/4/22 10:07, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
Without further ado, the following was found:

Issue:    Is the "L" in the bracket (for the NULL character) correct?

AFAIK, yes. I never used it myself, but I believe L'\0' generates a "null wide character".

Cheers,

Alex


"The B<wcsncpy>()  function is the wide-character equivalent of the"
"B<strncpy>(3)  function.  It copies at most I<n> wide characters from the"
"wide-character string pointed to by I<src>, including the terminating null"
"wide character (L\\(aq\\e0\\(aq), to the array pointed to by I<dest>."
"Exactly I<n> wide characters are written at I<dest>.  If the length"
"I<wcslen(src)> is smaller than I<n>, the remaining wide characters in the"
"array pointed to by I<dest> are filled with null wide characters.  If the"
"length I<wcslen(src)> is greater than or equal to I<n>, the string pointed"
"to by I<dest> will not be terminated by a null wide character."

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