Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:16:05 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: bcopy() |
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:57:12PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > The implementation of bcopy() in lib/string.c (and some other places such as > the XFS header files) is incorrect as it implements bcopy as memcpy. This is > wrong: bcopy should be the equivalent of memmove (which handles overlapping > areas correctly).
Kernel bcopy in traditional unix versions never supported overlapping. That's what ovbcopy() is/was for. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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