From 50430063cd01bcdd44d1182025865abf15bf2de7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mike <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:02:44 +0000
Subject: Note that strncmp() will not compare characters after a NUL
 character. Add a missing word.  Bump document date.

Inspired by:	IEEE Std 1003.1-200x (Draft 7)
MFC after:	3 days
---
 lib/libc/string/strcmp.3 | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/libc/string')

diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3 b/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3
index 33db3c6..08adad0 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strcmp.3
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)strcmp.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd October 11, 2001
 .Dt STRCMP 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -64,9 +64,16 @@ and
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn strncmp
+function
 compares not more than
 .Fa len
 characters.
+Because
+.Fn strncmp
+is designed for comparing strings rather than binary data,
+characters that appear after a
+.Ql \e0
+character are not compared.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 The
 .Fn strcmp
-- 
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