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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@ -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
@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ char *getpass_r(const char *prompt, /* prompt to display */
fputs(prompt, stderr);
nread = read(fd, password, buflen);
if(nread > 0)
password[--nread] = '\0'; /* zero terminate where enter is stored */
password[--nread] = '\0'; /* null-terminate where enter is stored */
else
password[0] = '\0'; /* got nothing */