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+.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
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+.\" $OpenBSD: bzero.3,v 1.13 2017/10/12 15:22:32 schwarze Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 12 2017 $
+.Dt BZERO 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm bzero ,
+.Nm explicit_bzero
+.Nd write zeroes to a byte string
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In strings.h
+.Ft void
+.Fn bzero "void *b" "size_t len"
+.In string.h
+.Ft void
+.Fn explicit_bzero "void *b" "size_t len"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn bzero
+function writes
+.Fa len
+zero bytes to the string
+.Fa b .
+If
+.Fa len
+is zero,
+.Fn bzero
+does nothing.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn explicit_bzero
+variant behaves the same, but will not be removed by a compiler's dead store
+optimization pass, making it useful for clearing sensitive memory such as a
+password.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr memset 3 ,
+.Xr swab 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn bzero
+function conforms to the X/Open System Interfaces option of the
+.St -p1003.1-2004
+specification.
+It was removed from the standard in
+.St -p1003.1-2008 ,
+which recommends using
+.Xr memset 3
+instead.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn explicit_bzero
+function is an
+.Ox
+extension.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn bzero
+function first appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .
+The
+.Fn explicit_bzero
+function first appeared in
+.Ox 5.5 .