Manual of BZERO(3) (v2.63)

Linux Programmer's Manual

NAME

bzero - write zero-valued bytes

#include <strings.h>

void bzero(void *s, size_t n);

The bzero() function sets the first n bytes of the byte area starting at s to zero (bytes containing '\0').

None.

4.3BSD. This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001): use memset(3) in new programs.