From 22926d4037ab1b331bb7d1b219e0b8ba03e4c05a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Meghan Denny <hello@nektro.net>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 02:59:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add NullWriter

---
 nio.zig         |  2 ++
 null_writer.zig | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 null_writer.zig

diff --git a/nio.zig b/nio.zig
index cbf9501ad148ddea3942e863fddcae16e3a837fb..3290f025e8d0f30b585b996047483908592489d3 100644
--- a/nio.zig
+++ b/nio.zig
@@ -301,3 +301,5 @@ pub const BufferedReader = @import("./buffered_reader.zig").BufferedReader;
 pub const BufferedWriter = @import("./buffered_writer.zig").BufferedWriter;
 
 pub const CountingWriter = @import("./counting_writer.zig").CountingWriter;
+
+pub const NullWriter = @import("./null_writer.zig").NullWriter;
diff --git a/null_writer.zig b/null_writer.zig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..23db0828bf021d5f151bfc1fbe86184242bba7a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/null_writer.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+const std = @import("std");
+const extras = @import("extras");
+const nio = @import("./nio.zig");
+
+pub const NullWriter = struct {
+    pub const WriteError = error{};
+    pub usingnamespace nio.Writable(@This(), ._var);
+    pub fn write(self: NullWriter, bytes: []const u8) WriteError!usize {
+        _ = self;
+        return bytes.len;
+    }
+};
-- 
2.54.0