null(4) Device Drivers Manual null(4) null, zero - , /dev/null /dev/zero, . Reads from /dev/null always return end of file (i.e., read(2) returns 0), whereas reads from /dev/zero always return bytes containing zero ('\0' characters). : mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 mknod -m 666 /dev/zero c 1 5 chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero /dev/null /dev/zero , . Linux 2.6.31, /dev/zero ( , /dev/zero). . chown(1), mknod(1), full(4) Alex Nik , Azamat Hackimov , Dmitry Bolkhovskikh , Yuri Kozlov ; GNU 3 , . . , , . Linux man-pages 6.06 31 2023 . null(4)