FULL(4D) Devices FULL(4D)

NAME

full - always-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(4D)

lseek(2) will always return successfully.

mmap(2) is not implemented.

FILES

/dev/full

SEE ALSO

mem(4D), null(4D), zero(4D)

illumos February 7, 2017 illumos