From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 18:52:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DE716A41C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:52:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8246943D1F for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:52:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from lightning (12-202-24-76.client.insightbb.com[12.202.24.76]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20050620185211i9100ssmh3e>; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:52:11 +0000 From: Steven Friedrich To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:52:06 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506201452.06292.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> Subject: man pages for string.h functions needs update X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:52:12 -0000 per "The C programming language" ANSI C edition, by K&R, page 249, states "Except for memove, the behaviour is undefined if copying takes place between overlapping objects.". memove and memcpy have appropriate notes. strcpy doesn't (and probably the rest of str* need a note to this effect). -- i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE There are 10 types of people in this world. Ones that understand binary and then, the others.