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Re: [PATCH v7] Implement strlcpy, strlcat [BZ #178]

Florian Weimer wrote:

I see the value as a post-condition, but I felt that your wording was
using the post-condition as a way to specify a pre-condition an
application has to adhere to, which I think is misleading.
Perhaps we can think of a way to reword it that is not so misleading. The postcondition that the output is always null-terminated, together with the constraint that the output fits within the size, means that the size is nonzero. Perhaps add "Requiring @var{size} to be nonzero guarantees space to null-terminate the destination."?
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