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.
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