null(4) - NetBSD Manual Pages

NULL(4)                 NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                NULL(4)

NAME
     null -- the null device

DESCRIPTION
     The null device accepts and reads data as any ordinary (and willing) file
     - but throws it away. The length of the null device is always zero.

FILES
     /dev/null

HISTORY
     A null device appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

NetBSD 5.0.1                     June 5, 1993                     NetBSD 5.0.1

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