Read /dev/null differs from POSIX
Steve Kargl
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sat May 21 14:03:10 PDT 2005
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 09:42:46PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> Steve Kargl writes:
> > Sorry for the noise. I remembered feof() about 15 minutes
> > ago. FreeBSD's null(4) man page, although quite short, is
> > somewhat confusing in its vagueness.
>
> NP. If the docs don't work, I guess we need to fix them. Given that
> I've had my grimy paws in null(4), it seems fair that I fix the docs.
>
> I'll give them a general looking over, but if you have any suggestions
> you'd like to see put in there, I'd be happy to oblige.
>
I have to run to a little league baseball game, so I think
about there. Something along the lines:
The null device has permission 666. Upon writing to /dev/null,
the data is thrown away. Upon reading /dev/null, it will always
return EOF.
--
Steve
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