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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:39:36 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: bin/24295: incorrect comment in strlcat.c
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>Number:         24295
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       incorrect comment in strlcat.c
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 12 15:50:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tony Finch
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-BETA-20001113 i386
>Organization:
Covalent Technologies Inc.
>Environment:

>Description:

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

Either rev. 1.4 of strlcat.c in OpenBSD's cvs or this patch which uses
slightly different wording:

--- strlcat.c   1999/08/10 05:58:57     1.2
+++ strlcat.c   2001/01/12 23:28:15
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@
  * Appends src to string dst of size siz (unlike strncat, siz is the
  * full size of dst, not space left).  At most siz-1 characters
  * will be copied.  Always NUL terminates (unless siz == 0).
- * Returns strlen(src); if retval >= siz, truncation occurred.
+ * Returns the smaller of strlen(dst) + strlen(src) and siz + strlen(src);
+ * if retval >= siz, truncation occurred.
  */
 size_t strlcat(dst, src, siz)
        char *dst;

>Release-Note:
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