Re: /dev/null implementation question

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Mar 08 2007 - 14:04:51 EST


On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:01:39 +0100 Michael Nitschinger wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I asked myself how /dev/null is implemented in C, but i didn't find anything in the documentation or generally on the internet. It would be great if someone could tell me where i can find the source for this device or how it is implemented, because it's really hard for me to crawl through the whole sourcetree.
>
> thanks in advance, kind regards
> Michael Nitschinger
>
> (p.s.: it would be great if you can Cc me in your answers because i am not subscribed to the mailinglist! thanks)

See linux/drivers/char/mem.c, look for null_fops.

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