From 9b7147021496fa61a30cb8804c11049772731d83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcelo Araujo Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 02:31:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove the mention of memcpy(3) that is build on top of bcopy(3). Fix some phrases to make it more clear. Differential Revision: D3378 Reported by: bde@ Reviewed by: wblock Approved by: bapt, rodrigc (mentor) Sponsored by: gandi.net --- lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 | 16 +++++++--------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 b/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 index ede910b02a25..19a71e1f6155 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" @(#)bcopy.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd August 11, 2015 +.Dd August 13, 2015 .Dt BCOPY 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -58,16 +58,14 @@ If .Fa len is zero, no bytes are copied. .Pp -This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in -POSIX.1-2001): use -.Xr memcpy 3 -or +This function is obsolete (marked as LEGACY in +POSIX.1-2001): please use .Xr memmove 3 in new programs. -Note that the first two arguments are -interchanged for -.Xr memcpy 3 -and +Note that +.Fn bcopy +takes its src and dst arguments in the opposite +order from .Xr memmove 3 . POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of .Fn bcopy .