From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 2 17:38:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15013 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:38:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15004 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:38:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09073; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 01:23:04 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA05424; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 01:23:40 GMT (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199811030123.BAA05424@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Alfred Perlstein cc: Terry Lambert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scanf in the kernel? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 16:43:58 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 01:23:39 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message