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diff --git a/man3/bcopy.3 b/man3/bcopy.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b8892e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/bcopy.3 @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" 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 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +bcopy \- copy byte sequence +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <strings.h> +.PP +.BI "[[deprecated]] void bcopy(const void " src [. n "], void " dest [. n "], \ +size_t " n ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR 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 ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR bcopy () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +None. +.SH HISTORY +4.3BSD. +.PP +Marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001: use +.BR memcpy (3) +or +.BR memmove (3) +in new programs. +Note that the first two arguments +are interchanged for +.BR memcpy (3) +and +.BR memmove (3). +POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of +.BR bcopy (). +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR bstring (3), +.BR memccpy (3), +.BR memcpy (3), +.BR memmove (3), +.BR strcpy (3), +.BR strncpy (3) |