1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" Chris Torek. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)bcopy.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 36.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3,v 1.3.2.4 2001/12/14 18:33:59 ru Exp $ 37.\" $DragonFly: src/lib/libc/string/bcopy.3,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:26:46 dillon Exp $ 38.\" 39.Dd June 4, 1993 40.Dt BCOPY 3 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm bcopy 44.Nd copy byte string 45.Sh LIBRARY 46.Lb libc 47.Sh SYNOPSIS 48.In string.h 49.Ft void 50.Fn bcopy "const void *src" "void *dst" "size_t len" 51.Sh DESCRIPTION 52The 53.Fn bcopy 54function 55copies 56.Fa len 57bytes from string 58.Fa src 59to string 60.Fa dst . 61The two strings may overlap. 62If 63.Fa len 64is zero, no bytes are copied. 65.Sh SEE ALSO 66.Xr memccpy 3 , 67.Xr memcpy 3 , 68.Xr memmove 3 , 69.Xr strcpy 3 , 70.Xr strncpy 3 71.Sh HISTORY 72A 73.Fn bcopy 74function appeared in 75.Bx 4.2 . 76