STRNLEN(3P)

💖 STRNLEN(3P) — POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the strnlen page, straight outta the POSIX Programmer's Manual. pull up a chair, this one's short and sweet 🍓

✨ PROLOG ✨

real talk first: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. so, heads up 👑

• the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — like, go check the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior, fr fr
• or… the interface might not be implemented on Linux at all 😭 no cap

🦋 NAME 🦋

strnlen — get length of fixed size string

that's it. that's the whole vibe. she measures, but with a limit 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <string.h>

size_t strnlen(const char *s, size_t maxlen);

look at her. so simple. so iconic 👑

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Refer to strlen().

(that's genuinely all it says, bestie — the full tea lives over on the strlen() page, so go sip there 🫶)

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

okay so this part is the serious, grown-up, legal section and we do NOT play with it 🙈 — here's exactly what it says:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

so yeah — if this page and the actual Standard ever beef, the Standard wins. periodt. 🫡

and that's the whole page, bestie!! short king energy but every crumb is here ✨

signing off with the receipts: this one's from IEEE/The Open Group, 2017 — STRNLEN(3P), 2017 edition. mwah 💅💖🦋