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”).