terminology: call them null-terminated strings

Updated terminology in docs, comments and phrases to refer to C strings
as "null-terminated". Done to unify with how most other C oriented docs
refer of them and what users in general seem to prefer (based on a
single highly unscientific poll on twitter).

Reported-by: coinhubs on github
Fixes #5598
Closes #5608
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Daniel Stenberg 2020-06-25 11:38:25 +02:00
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commit 032e838b73
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107 changed files with 139 additions and 139 deletions

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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
* | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
* \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
*
* Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
* Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
*
* This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
* you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
* Curl_dedotdotify()
* @unittest: 1395
*
* This function gets a zero-terminated path with dot and dotdot sequences
* This function gets a null-terminated path with dot and dotdot sequences
* passed in and strips them off according to the rules in RFC 3986 section
* 5.2.4.
*
@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ char *Curl_dedotdotify(const char *input)
if(!out)
return NULL; /* out of memory */
*out = 0; /* zero terminates, for inputs like "./" */
*out = 0; /* null-terminates, for inputs like "./" */
/* get a cloned copy of the input */
clone = strdup(input);
@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ char *Curl_dedotdotify(const char *input)
if(*outptr == '/')
break;
}
*outptr = 0; /* zero-terminate where it stops */
*outptr = 0; /* null-terminate where it stops */
}
else if(!strcmp("/..", clone)) {
clone[2]='/';
@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ char *Curl_dedotdotify(const char *input)
if(*outptr == '/')
break;
}
*outptr = 0; /* zero-terminate where it stops */
*outptr = 0; /* null-terminate where it stops */
}
/* D. if the input buffer consists only of "." or "..", then remove