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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2017 09:16:51 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Allan Jude <allanjude@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r316311 - in head: lib/libstand sys/boot/geli sys/boot/i386/gptboot sys/boot/i386/loader sys/boot/i386/zfsboot
Message-ID:  <1490973411.64669.121.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201703310004.v2V04W3A043449@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201703310004.v2V04W3A043449@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 00:04 +0000, Allan Jude wrote:
> 
>   Add explicit_bzero() to libstand, and switch GELIBoot to using it

    revolution > man explicit_bzero
    No manual entry for explicit_bzero

    revolution > svn log -v explicit_bzero.c
    ...
    r272673 | delphij | 2014-10-06 22:54:11 -0600 (Mon, 06 Oct 2014) | 5 lines

    Add explicit_bzero(3) and its kernel counterpart.

    Obtained from:  OpenBSD

So... can anyone provide a clue what's "explicit" (or different in any
way) between explicit_bzero() and normal bzero()?

-- Ian




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