Make clear the bcopy(3) manpage regards when it was marked as LEGACY

as well as when it was removed from POSIX specification.

Reviewed by:		theraven, wblock, bapt, rodrigc
Approved by:		bapt, rodrigc (mentor)
Differential Revision:	D3374
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Marcelo Araujo 2015-08-14 01:27:30 +00:00
parent 6790a2583c
commit 6a182dddd9

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@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" @(#)bcopy.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd August 13, 2015
.Dd August 14, 2015
.Dt BCOPY 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -57,18 +57,6 @@ The two strings may overlap.
If
.Fa len
is zero, no bytes are copied.
.Pp
This function is obsolete (marked as LEGACY in
POSIX.1-2001): please use
.Xr memmove 3
in new programs.
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 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr memccpy 3 ,
.Xr memcpy 3 ,
@ -87,3 +75,25 @@ before it was moved to
for
.St -p1003.1-2001
compliance.
.Pp
The
.St -p1003.1-2008
removes the specification of
.Fn bcopy
and it is marked as LEGACY in
.St -p1003.1-2004 .
New programs should use
.Xr memmove 3 .
If the input and output buffer do not overlap, then
.Xr memcpy 3
is more efficient.
Note that
.Fn bcopy
takes
.Ar src
and
.Ar dst
in the opposite order from
.Fn memmove
and
.Fn memcpy .