From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:34:22 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: man/man3/wcpncpy.3: RETURN VALUE: Fix incorrect wording
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man/man3/wcpncpy.3: RETURN VALUE: Fix incorrect wording

Fixes: d91506f8faa4 (1999-08-24, 2022-12-19; "man-pages 1.26")
Reported-by: Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/man/man3/wcpncpy.3 b/man/man3/wcpncpy.3
index 636c1cdac..2533ac369 100644
--- a/man/man3/wcpncpy.3
+++ b/man/man3/wcpncpy.3
@@ -79,8 +79,10 @@ characters at
 .IR dest .
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 .BR wcpncpy ()
-returns a pointer to the last wide character written, that is,
-.IR dest + n \-1.
+returns a pointer to
+one past the last non-null wide character written,
+that is,
+.IR dest\~+\~wcsnlen(src,\~n) .
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
 .BR attributes (7).