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diff --git a/man3/bcopy.3 b/man3/bcopy.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1d1a37bb1 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/bcopy.3 @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" +.\" Modified Sun Feb 26 14:52:00 1995 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> +.\" Modified Tue Oct 22 23:48:10 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> +.\" " +.TH BCOPY 3 2002-12-31 "Linux" "LINUX Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +bcopy \- copy byte sequence +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <strings.h> +.sp +.BI "void bcopy(const void *" src ", void *" dest ", size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B bcopy() +function copies +.I n +bytes from +.I src +to +.IR dest . +The result is correct, even when both areas overlap. +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +None. +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +4.3BSD. This function is deprecated -- use +.B memcpy +in new programs. Note that the first two parameters +are interchanged for +.BR memcpy . +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR memccpy (3), +.BR memcpy (3), +.BR memmove (3), +.BR strcpy (3), +.BR strncpy (3) |