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| author | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-03-03 15:39:06 +0000 |
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| committer | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-03-03 15:39:06 +0000 |
| commit | f8a5871d894eb75405f35d9ce4eeb220fbd6c627 (patch) | |
| tree | 41a45ecad455b6421976ad326f4b2c5329c55c63 /lib/libc/stdtime/strftime.3 | |
| parent | 7de8df2b4b2cbbd2d540b1f2b1b4bdd605fd298d (diff) | |
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Use .Sq Li \&\e0 rather than NUL to describe the character with no bits
set, as suggested by Garrett Wollman. This is more consistant with how
things like strncpy are done, as well as harder to confuse NUL and NULL.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdtime/strftime.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdtime/strftime.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdtime/strftime.3 b/lib/libc/stdtime/strftime.3 index 0ff3ad7..ba2d1a0 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdtime/strftime.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdtime/strftime.3 @@ -72,13 +72,17 @@ could have been written into .Fa buf then .Fa bug -will not be NUL terminated. +will not be +.Sq Li \&\e0 +terminated. If the total number of resulting characters, including the terminating -NUL character, is not more than +.Sq Li \&\e0 +character, is not more than .Fa maxsize , .Fn strftime returns the number of characters in the array, not counting the -terminating NUL. +terminating +.Sq Li \&\e0 . Otherwise, zero is returned. .Pp Each conversion specification is replaced by the characters as |
