FULL(7D) Devices FULL(7D)

NAME

fullalways-full device

SYNOPSIS

/dev/full

DESCRIPTION

The full device is used to test program behavior in out-of-space conditions.
Writes always yield the error ENOSPC.
Reads supply an endless stream of zeros, identical to zero(7D)
lseek(2) will always return successfully.
mmap(2) is not implemented.

FILES

/dev/full

SEE ALSO

mem(7D), null(7D), zero(7D)
February 7, 2017 illumos