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diff --git a/man3/bstring.3 b/man3/bstring.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b858305ca --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/bstring.3 @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +.\" 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 +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date.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 1993-04-12, David Metcalfe +.\" Modified 1993-07-24, Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified 2002-01-20, Walter Harms +.TH BSTRING 3 2002-01-20 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +bcmp, bcopy, bzero, memccpy, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memfrob, memmem, +memmove, memset \- byte string operations +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <string.h> +.sp +.BI "int bcmp(const void *" s1 ", const void *" s2 ", int " n ); +.sp +.BI "void bcopy(const void *" src ", void *" dest ", int " n ); +.sp +.BI "void bzero(void *" s ", int " n ); +.sp +.BI "void *memccpy(void *" dest ", const void *" src ", int " c ", size_t " n ); +.sp +.BI "void *memchr(const void *" s ", int " c ", size_t " n ); +.sp +.BI "int memcmp(const void *" s1 ", const void *" s2 ", size_t " n ); +.sp +.BI "void *memcpy(void *" dest ", const void *" src ", size_t " n ); +.sp +.BI "void *memfrob(void *" s ", size_t " n ); +.sp +.BI "void *memmem(const void *" needle ", size_t " needlelen , +.RS +.BI "const void *" haystack ", size_t " haystacklen ); +.RE +.sp +.BI "void *memmove(void *" dest ", const void *" src ", size_t " n ); +.sp +.BI "void *memset(void *" s ", int " c ", size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The byte string functions perform operations on strings (byte arrays) +that are not necessarily NUL-terminated. See the individual man pages +for descriptions of each function. +.SH NOTE +The functions +.BR bcmp (), +.BR bcopy () +and +.BR bzero () +are obsolete. Use +.BR memcmp (), +.BR memcpy () +and +.BR memset () +instead. +.\" The old functions are not even available on some non-GNU/Linux systems. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR bcmp (3), +.BR bcopy (3), +.BR bzero (3), +.BR memccpy (3), +.BR memchr (3), +.BR memcmp (3), +.BR memcpy (3), +.BR memfrob (3), +.BR memmem (3), +.BR memmove (3), +.BR memset (3) |