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BZERO(3)                  OpenBSD Programmer's Manual                 BZERO(3)

NAME
     bzero - write zeroes to a byte string



SYNOPSIS
     #include <string.h>

     void
     bzero(void *b, size_t len);

DESCRIPTION
     The bzero() function writes len zero bytes to the string b. If len is ze-
     ro, bzero() does nothing.

SEE ALSO
     memset(3),  swab(3)

HISTORY
     A bzero() function appeared in 4.3BSD.

OpenBSD 2.6                     April 19, 1991                               1

Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY
SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others.



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Up to: Memory blocks (Sometimes called "Byte Strings") - Memory blocks. Allocated, shared, mmaped, kernel et al


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