Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 01:23:39 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scanf in the kernel? Message-ID: <199811030123.BAA05424@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 16:43:58 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811021636020.14876-100000@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net>
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> > bcopy doesn't support overlapping ranges on all systems.
> >
> > eg. IRIX 6.2 man page:
> >
> > NOTE
> > The use of overlapping buffers with bcopy is not guaranteed to work. Use
> > the memmove(3C) function if the buffers might overlap.
> >
> >
>
> Since BSD was the first "implementation" of b{copy|zero} stuff i
> think our implementation is correct no?
I'd agree. Their implementation is probably no more than a
#define of memcpy !
[.....]
> -Alfred
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