NAME

bzero — write zeroes to a byte string

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include < strings.h>

void
bzero( void *b, size_t len);

DESCRIPTION

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

SEE ALSO

memset(3), swab(3)

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.