NAME
bzero —
write zeroes to a byte
string
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include
<strings.h>
void
bzero(void
*s, size_t n);
DESCRIPTION
The
bzero()
function writes n zeroed bytes to the string
s. If n is zero,
bzero() does nothing.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
A bzero() function appeared in
4.3BSD. Its prototype existed previously in
<string.h> before it was
moved to <strings.h> for
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”)
compliance.
bzero() was deprecated in
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”) and
removed in IEEE Std 1003.1-2008
(“POSIX.1”).