From c59961eebe0b657b0ce96e83be4ac1eab6648f2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: millert <>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 04:02:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] State explicitly that strlc{py,at} only work on real C
 strings. Clarify point about always NUL-terminating.

---
 src/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3 | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3 b/src/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
index 03a80e6c..5acbcce1 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: strlcpy.3,v 1.7 2000/04/21 15:24:20 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strlcpy.3,v 1.8 2000/06/01 04:02:05 millert Exp $
 .\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998, 2000 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -56,9 +56,28 @@ and
 take the full size of the buffer (not just the length) and guarantee to
 NUL-terminate the result (as long as
 .Fa size
-is larger than 0).
+is larger than 0 or, in the case of
+.Fn strlcat ,
+as long as there is at least one byte free in
+.Fa dst ) .
 Note that you should include a byte for the NUL in
 .Fa size .
+Also note that
+.Fn strlcpy  
+and
+.Fn strlcat
+only operate on true
+.Dq C
+strings.  This means that for
+.Fn strlcpy
+.Fa src
+must be NUL-terminated and for
+.Fn strlcat
+both
+.Fa src
+and
+.Fa dst
+must be NUL-terminated.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn strlcpy