SysV bcopy?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Wed Mar 22 14:49:11 AEST 1989


In article <216000009 at s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll at s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Out of curriosity, why in the world does bcopy have the source and destination
>backwards from everything else?

There are people who think that "copy FROM TO" is a more natural order.
Presumably the fellow who wrote the first bcopy() thought so.



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