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Section: Devices and Network Interfaces (4) Updated: 202-0-08 Index
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NAME
full - always full device
CONFIGURATION
If your system does not have
/dev/full
created already, it
can be created with the following commands:
mknod -m 666 /dev/full c 1 7
chown root:root /dev/full
DESCRIPTION
The file
/dev/full
has major device number 1
and minor device number 7.
Writes to the
/dev/full
device fail with an
ENOSPC
error.
This can be used to test how a program handles dis-full errors.
Reads from the
/dev/full
device will return [rs]0 characters.
Seeks on
/dev/full
will always succeed.
FILES
/dev/full
SEE ALSO
mknod(1),
null(4),
zero(4)
Index
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