From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@transmeta.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: bcopy()
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:57:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12660.1033999032@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
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).
I've dicussed it with a number of people, and the general consensus seems to
be that it should be nuked entirely? Do you agree?
David
next reply other threads:[~2002-10-07 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-07 13:57 David Howells [this message]
2002-10-07 14:16 ` bcopy() Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-07 15:45 ` bcopy() Linus Torvalds
[not found] <5.1.0.14.2.20021007195409.00b54a98@pop.gmx.net>
2002-10-07 18:08 ` bcopy() Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 18:14 ` bcopy() Matthew Wilcox
2002-10-07 18:17 ` bcopy() Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 18:17 ` bcopy() Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-07 18:21 ` bcopy() Linus Torvalds
2002-10-07 18:31 ` bcopy() Stan Bubrouski
2002-10-08 19:03 ` bcopy() Kai Henningsen
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