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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:28:17 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
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.\" Modified Tue Oct 22 23:49:37 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
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.TH BZERO 3 2002-12-31 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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bzero \- write zero-valued bytes
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <strings.h>
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.BI "void bzero(void *" s ", size_t " n );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR bzero ()
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function sets the first
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.I n
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bytes of the byte area starting at
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.I s
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to zero (bytes containing '\\0').
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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None.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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4.3BSD.
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This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001): use
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.BR memset ()
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in new programs.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR memset (3),
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.BR swab (3)
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