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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-17 10:52:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-17 10:52:03 +0000 |
| commit | 932e4432596447eb9331cc2a2bb74a26a35b4efc (patch) | |
| tree | 95161711ea07fd64f0c82d6e7943024c033dd5a8 /upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man4/null.4 | |
| parent | Adding debian version 4.22.0-1. (diff) | |
| download | manpages-l10n-932e4432596447eb9331cc2a2bb74a26a35b4efc.tar.xz manpages-l10n-932e4432596447eb9331cc2a2bb74a26a35b4efc.zip | |
Merging upstream version 4.23.0.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man4/null.4')
| -rw-r--r-- | upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man4/null.4 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man4/null.4 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man4/null.4 index c1299fba..f9c718e4 100644 --- a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man4/null.4 +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man4/null.4 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later .\" .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:00:12 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.TH null 4 2023-02-05 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH null 4 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" .SH NAME null, zero \- data sink .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Data written to the and .I /dev/zero special files is discarded. -.PP +.P Reads from .I /dev/null always return end of file (i.e., @@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ always return end of file (i.e., returns 0), whereas reads from .I /dev/zero always return bytes containing zero (\[aq]\e0\[aq] characters). -.PP +.P These devices are typically created by: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX mknod \-m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero .SH NOTES If these devices are not writable and readable for all users, many programs will act strangely. -.PP +.P Since Linux 2.6.31, .\" commit 2b83868723d090078ac0e2120e06a1cc94dbaef0 reads from |