Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)

FreeBSD Manual Pages

  
 
  

home | help
NULL(4)			    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

SEE ALSO
       full(4),	zero(4)

HISTORY
       A null device appeared in Version 4 AT&T	UNIX.

FreeBSD	14.3			August 30, 2019			       NULL(4)

Want to link to this manual page? Use this URL:
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=null&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+14.3-RELEASE+and+Ports>

home | help