According to Wikipedia the null device first appeared in Version 4 UNIX, so I'm going to guess Thompson and Ritchie.
static ssize_t write_null(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { return count; }
I've always wanted to learn C, but it is probably never going to happen. Will have to settle for hobby level Python and shell scripts.
@Kernel Kurtz : this is both simple but also very useful. I've written some complex c programs with it. But it is one of the easiest to learn that I've found: https://quincy.codecutter.org/
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