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Re: style(9) sweep on config(8)


From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 01:39:14 +0100

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:04:04PM -0500, Dave Cuthbert wrote:
> Chris Pressey wrote:
> >	o  Use memset(ptr, 0, size) instead of bzero(ptr, size)
> 
> Is there a reason why uses of bzero() should be changed to memset()?

For the kernel, using bzero is fine. For the userland bzero is BSD
specific function, while memset is ISO C89.

For timing, they should ~identical.

Joerg

> Dave



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