Hello tech@,
currently the man-page for strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) calls
the third argument for those functions "dstsize" whereas the
C source code calls it "dsize". This patch addresses this issue
by renaming it to "dsize" to keep coherency between the man-page
and the source code.

diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3 b/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
index a14145e199f..7e0a6379638 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 25 2019 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 30 2021 $
 .Dt STRLCPY 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .In string.h
 .Ft size_t
-.Fn strlcpy "char *dst" "const char *src" "size_t dstsize"
+.Fn strlcpy "char *dst" "const char *src" "size_t dsize"
 .Ft size_t
-.Fn strlcat "char *dst" "const char *src" "size_t dstsize"
+.Fn strlcat "char *dst" "const char *src" "size_t dsize"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Fn strlcpy
@@ -47,17 +47,17 @@ and
 take the full size of the destination buffer and guarantee
 NUL-termination if there is room.
 Note that room for the NUL should be included in
-.Fa dstsize .
+.Fa dsize .
 .Pp
 .Fn strlcpy
 copies up to
-.Fa dstsize
+.Fa dsize
 \- 1 characters from the string
 .Fa src
 to
 .Fa dst ,
 NUL-terminating the result if
-.Fa dstsize
+.Fa dsize
 is not 0.
 .Pp
 .Fn strlcat
@@ -66,17 +66,17 @@ appends string
 to the end of
 .Fa dst .
 It will append at most
-.Fa dstsize
+.Fa dsize
 \- strlen(dst) \- 1 characters.
 It will then NUL-terminate, unless
-.Fa dstsize
+.Fa dsize
 is 0 or the original
 .Fa dst
 string was longer than
-.Fa dstsize
+.Fa dsize
 (in practice this should not happen
 as it means that either
-.Fa dstsize
+.Fa dsize
 is incorrect or that
 .Fa dst
 is not a proper string).
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ the length of
 .Pp
 If the return value is
 .Cm >=
-.Va dstsize ,
+.Va dsize ,
 the output string has been truncated.
 It is the caller's responsibility to handle this.
 .Sh EXAMPLES

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