bzero() before free()

[Eduardo Silva]

I had to do that long time ago, that was the only way to avoid a problem
generated by the compiler, I'm not talking about ssh, it was another
project... maybe it was done for the same reason ?

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, <miguel.sanders at arcelormittal.com> wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> I've been browsing the code and at many places I found the following odd
> sequence:
>
> char * string=malloc(somesize);
> …
> bzero(string,strlen(string));
> free(string);
>
> I really don't see why you would zero a string and free the memory
> immediately afterwards?
> Any idea why this is done?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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