strncpy’s src need not be a string; it can be an array that is not null-terminated. Reword so as to not imply that the result always has some null padding. Use “byte” rather than “character” to avoid issues with “character”, as not every byte is a valid character in (for example) UTF-8 locales. Replace “‐” (U+2020 HYPHEN) with “-” (U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS). --- man3/string.3 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/string.3 b/man3/string.3 index bd8b342a6..4037fce47 100644 --- a/man3/string.3 +++ b/man3/string.3 @@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ bytes to const char " src "[restrict ." n ], .BI " size_t " n ); .fi -Fill a fixed‐width buffer with characters from a string -and pad with null bytes. +Fill a fixed-size buffer with non-null bytes from a source array, +padding with null bytes as needed. .SH DESCRIPTION The string functions perform operations on null-terminated strings. -- 2.41.0
