man pages for string.h functions needs update

Steven Friedrich FreeBSD at InsightBB.com
Mon Jun 20 18:52:12 UTC 2005


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).

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