From a9227c40eb16696de3b96947b035df60b410eb9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:49:06 +0000
Subject: Clarify that strnstr() will stop searching after in encounters a NUL
 character.  Bump document date.  Add a missing comma.

---
 lib/libc/string/strstr.3 | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib')

diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strstr.3 b/lib/libc/string/strstr.3
index d71537d67bc7..4fd02d2d60f8 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strstr.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strstr.3
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)strstr.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd October 11, 2001
 .Dt STRSTR 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ in the null-terminated string
 The
 .Fn strcasestr
 function is similar to
-.Fn strstr
+.Fn strstr ,
 but ignores the case of both strings.
 .Pp
 The
@@ -75,9 +75,12 @@ locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string
 .Fa little
 in the string
 .Fa big ,
-where only the first number of characters, identified by
-.Fa len ,
-are searched.
+where not more than
+.Fa len
+characters are searched.
+Characters that appear after a
+.Ql \e0
+character are not searched.
 Since the
 .Fn strnstr
 function is a
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