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-.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
-.\"     Fri Apr  2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
-.\"
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-.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:00:12 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.TH NULL 4 2009-02-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
-.SH NAME
-null, zero \- data sink
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-Data written to a
-.BR null
-or
-.B zero
-special file is discarded.
-.PP
-Reads from the
-.B null
-special file always return end of file (i.e.,
-.BR read (2)
-returns 0), whereas
-reads from
-.B zero
-always return bytes containing zero (\e0 characters).
-.LP
-.B null
-and
-.B zero
-are typically created by:
-.RS
-.sp
-mknod \-m 666 /dev/null c 1 3
-.br
-mknod \-m 666 /dev/zero c 1 5
-.br
-chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero
-.RE
-.SH FILES
-.I /dev/null
-.br
-.I /dev/zero
-.SH NOTES
-If these devices are not writable and readable for all users, many
-programs will act strangely.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR chown (1),
-.BR mknod (1),
-.BR full (4)
-.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
-.I man-pages
-project.
-A description of the project,
-information about reporting bugs,
-and the latest version of this page,
-can be found at
-\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.