zero(4freebsd)

zero4freebsd

The zero device

Overview

The zero device accepts and reads data as any ordinary (and willing) file, but throws away any data written to it, and returns an endless supply of null bytes when read.

Files

/dev/zero

Releases

9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8
  5. 9
  6. 10
  7. 11–13

History

A zero device appeared in 4.4BSD.

From freebsd-manpages 12.2-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.