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- NULL(4) UNIX Programmer's Manual NULL(4)
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- NNAAMMEE
- nnuullll - the null device
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- DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
- The nnuullll device accepts and reads data as any ordinary (and willing) file
- - but throws it away. The length of the nnuullll device is always zero.
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- FFIILLEESS
- /dev/null
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- HHIISSTTOORRYY
- A nnuullll device appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
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- BSD Experimental June 5, 1993 1
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