Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:43:58 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scanf in the kernel? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811021636020.14876-100000@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811020935550.277-100000@alive.znep.com>
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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?
Considering IRIX didn't have snprintf in thier c library in their 1997
release says something doesn't it?
:)
-Alfred
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