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Man Page: null

Operating Environment: v7

Section: 4

NULL(4) 						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							   NULL(4)


NAME

       null - data sink


DESCRIPTION

       Data written on a null special file is discarded.

       Reads from a null special file always return 0 bytes.


FILES

       /dev/null

																	   NULL(4)
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