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30.Dd January 17, 2016
31.Dt FULL 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm full
35.Nd the full device
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm
39device always return
40.Bq Er ENOSPC
41on writing,
42.Pp
43In all other cases it behaves like the
44.Xr zero 4
45device and provides an infinite stream of zeros.
46.Sh FILES
47.Bl -tag -width /dev/full
48.It Pa /dev/full
49.El
50.Sh HISTORY
51The
52.Nm
53device appeared in
54.Nx 8 .
55.Sh AUTHORS
56.An Christos Zoulas
57