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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:06 +0000
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.\" 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 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.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