1e7eca1a1Sperry.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 2e7eca1a1Sperry.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3e7eca1a1Sperry.\" 4e7eca1a1Sperry.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5e7eca1a1Sperry.\" Chris Torek. 6e7eca1a1Sperry.\" 7e7eca1a1Sperry.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8e7eca1a1Sperry.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9e7eca1a1Sperry.\" are met: 10e7eca1a1Sperry.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11e7eca1a1Sperry.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12e7eca1a1Sperry.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13e7eca1a1Sperry.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14e7eca1a1Sperry.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15*075022b3Sagc.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 16e7eca1a1Sperry.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17e7eca1a1Sperry.\" without specific prior written permission. 18e7eca1a1Sperry.\" 19e7eca1a1Sperry.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20e7eca1a1Sperry.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21e7eca1a1Sperry.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22e7eca1a1Sperry.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23e7eca1a1Sperry.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24e7eca1a1Sperry.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25e7eca1a1Sperry.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26e7eca1a1Sperry.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27e7eca1a1Sperry.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28e7eca1a1Sperry.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29e7eca1a1Sperry.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30e7eca1a1Sperry.\" 31e7eca1a1Sperry.\" from: @(#)bzero.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 32*075022b3Sagc.\" $NetBSD: bzero.9,v 1.7 2003/08/07 10:31:30 agc Exp $ 33e7eca1a1Sperry.\" 34e7eca1a1Sperry.Dd July 7, 2001 35e7eca1a1Sperry.Dt BZERO 9 36e7eca1a1Sperry.Os 37e7eca1a1Sperry.Sh NAME 38e7eca1a1Sperry.Nm bzero 39e7eca1a1Sperry.Nd write zeroes to a byte string 40e7eca1a1Sperry.Sh SYNOPSIS 41472351e1Swiz.In sys/systm.h 42e7eca1a1Sperry.Ft void 43e7eca1a1Sperry.Fn bzero "void *b" "size_t len" 44e7eca1a1Sperry.Sh DESCRIPTION 45e7eca1a1Sperry.Bf -symbolic 46e7eca1a1SperryThe 47e7eca1a1Sperry.Fn bzero 48e7eca1a1Sperryinterface is obsolete. 49e7eca1a1SperryDo not add new code using it. 50e7eca1a1SperryIt will soon be purged. 51e7eca1a1SperryUse 52e7eca1a1Sperry.Xr memset 9 53e7eca1a1Sperryinstead. 54e7eca1a1Sperry(The 55e7eca1a1Sperry.Fn bzero 56e7eca1a1Sperryfunction is now a macro for 57e7eca1a1Sperry.Xr memset 9 . ) 58e7eca1a1Sperry.Ef 59e7eca1a1Sperry.Pp 60e7eca1a1SperryThe 61e7eca1a1Sperry.Fn bzero 62e7eca1a1Sperryfunction 63e7eca1a1Sperrywrites 64e7eca1a1Sperry.Fa len 65e7eca1a1Sperryzero bytes to the string 66e7eca1a1Sperry.Fa b . 67e7eca1a1SperryIf 68e7eca1a1Sperry.Fa len 69e7eca1a1Sperryis zero, 70e7eca1a1Sperry.Fn bzero 71e7eca1a1Sperrydoes nothing. 72e7eca1a1Sperry.Sh SEE ALSO 73e6895901Swiz.Xr memset 9 74