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2.4 KiB
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83 lines
2.4 KiB
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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" Chris Torek.
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.\" are met:
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" from: @(#)bzero.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $NetBSD: bzero.3,v 1.13 2010/04/29 06:54:26 jruoho Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd April 29, 2010
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.Dt BZERO 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm bzero
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.Nd write zeroes to a byte string
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In strings.h
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.Ft void
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.Fn bzero "void *b" "size_t len"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn bzero
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function
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writes
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.Fa len
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zero bytes to the string
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.Fa b .
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If
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.Fa len
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is zero,
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.Fn bzero
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does nothing.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr memset 3 ,
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.Xr swab 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn bzero
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function conforms to
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.St -p1003.1-2001 .
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The
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.St -p1003.1-2004
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revision marked it as legacy and recommended the use of
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.Xr memset 3
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instead.
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The
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.St -p1003.1-2008
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revision removed
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.Fn bzero
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from the specification.
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Fn bzero
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function
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appeared in
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.Bx 4.3 .
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