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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2014-06-05 03:11:47 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-05 03:54:18 +0400
commit0046dd9fed0c9313cbb4fb860324476cd298dc9f (patch)
treeae450418fa5963507fb3aee838c0e0077313f53b /lib
parenta8fe19ebfbfd90ec17c02284717238b02efb9580 (diff)
downloadlinux-0046dd9fed0c9313cbb4fb860324476cd298dc9f.tar.xz
lib/string.c: use the name "C-string" in comments
For strncpy() and friends the source string may or may not have an actual NUL character at the end. The documentation is confusing in this because it specifically mentions that you are passing a "NUL-terminated" string. Wikipedia says that "C-string" is an alternative name we can use instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-terminated_string Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/string.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index e0c20eb362f0..992bf30af759 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcpy);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCPY
/**
- * strncpy - Copy a length-limited, %NUL-terminated string
+ * strncpy - Copy a length-limited, C-string
* @dest: Where to copy the string to
* @src: Where to copy the string from
* @count: The maximum number of bytes to copy
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncpy);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLCPY
/**
- * strlcpy - Copy a %NUL terminated string into a sized buffer
+ * strlcpy - Copy a C-string into a sized buffer
* @dest: Where to copy the string to
* @src: Where to copy the string from
* @size: size of destination buffer
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcat);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCAT
/**
- * strncat - Append a length-limited, %NUL-terminated string to another
+ * strncat - Append a length-limited, C-string to another
* @dest: The string to be appended to
* @src: The string to append to it
* @count: The maximum numbers of bytes to copy
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncat);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLCAT
/**
- * strlcat - Append a length-limited, %NUL-terminated string to another
+ * strlcat - Append a length-limited, C-string to another
* @dest: The string to be appended to
* @src: The string to append to it
* @count: The size of the destination buffer.