Scout needs to initialize names in scout_disk structures to prevent
the use of uninitialized data. However, '\0' is a NUL character
constant, i.e., the integer value 0, which is interpreted as NULL
(the pointer constant) in a pointer context, such as when assigned to
a variable of type char*. Since the name field in these structs is
passed to printing routines, the safe initialization value is the
empty string constant "", not a zero value.