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/* Copyright (c) The m-m-m Team, Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 */
package net.sf.mmm.util.io.api;

import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * This is an implementation of {@code /dev/null} as {@link OutputStream}. In other words the {@link DevNullTarget} is a
 * dummy {@link OutputStream} that ignores all the data written.
 *
 * @author Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
public final class DevNullTarget extends OutputStream {

  /** The singleton instance. */
  public static final DevNullTarget INSTANCE = new DevNullTarget();

  /**
   * The constructor.
   */
  private DevNullTarget() {

    super();
  }

  @Override
  public void write(int b) {

    // nothing to do
  }

  @Override
  public void write(byte[] b, int off, int len) {

    // nothing to do
  }

  @Override
  public void close() {

    // do nothing...
  }

}