linux man page for bzero

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

NAME
       bzero - write zero-valued bytes

SYNOPSIS
       #include <strings.h>

       void bzero(void *s, size_t n);

DESCRIPTION
       The bzero() function sets the first n bytes of the byte area starting at s to zero (bytes containing '').

RETURN VALUE
       None.

CONFORMING TO
       4.3BSD.	 This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001): use memset(3) in new programs.  POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifi-
       cation of bzero().

SEE ALSO
       memset(3), swab(3)

COLOPHON
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Linux								    2008-08-06								  BZERO(3)