[34] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: bcopy vs. memcpy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Thu Oct 18 18:10:27 1990
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 90 18:03:35 EDT
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.com>
To: bstrand@poplar.cray.com
Cc: krb5-testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Brad Strand's message of Thursday, October 18, 1990 5:56:03 pm (EDT)
(this is beating a dead horse at this point).
"memmove()" is part of the ANSI C standard; it's just like "memcpy()"
except that it Does The Right Thing on overlapping blocks.
"bcopy() copies length bytes from string b1 to the string b2.
Overlapping strings are handled correctly."
Ok, *on your system*, you can implement "memmove()" by calling
"bcopy()" (don't forget to switch the first and second arguments...).
The man pages for Domain/OS, and for 4.3BSD as installed at
MIT/Athena, have the first sentance, but not the second. This is
evidence to me that the behavior not globally specified.
- Bill
