On 09/11/2023 14:35, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Jonny, > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 02:11:14PM +0000, Jonny Grant wrote: >> On 08/11/2023 23:06, Paul Eggert wrote: >>> On 11/8/23 14:17, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >>>> These copy*from* a string >>> >>> Not necessarily. For example, in strncpy (DST, SRC, N), SRC need not be a string. >>> >>> By the way, have you looked at the recent (i.e., this-year) changes to the glibc manual's string section? They're relevant. >> >> That's a great reference page Paul, lots of useful information in the manual. >> https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/String-and-Array-Utilities.html >> >> Re this man page: >> >> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/string.3.html >> >> Obsolete functions >> char *strncpy(char dest[restrict .n], const char src[restrict .n], >> size_t n); >> Copy at most n bytes from string src to dest, returning a >> pointer to the start of dest. > > Uh, I forgot about that page. I'll have a look at it and update it. At > least, I need to remove that "Obsolete functions". > >> >> >> It could clarify >> "Copy at most n bytes from string src to ARRAY dest, returning a >> pointer to the start of ARRAY dest." > > I think I prefer DJ's suggestion: > > "Fill a fixed‐width null‐padded buffer with bytes from a string." Better to make it clear it's null-padded after? "Fill a fixed‐width buffer with bytes from a string and pad with null bytes." I'll leave it with you. Kind regards Jonny
