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Name

intro - introduction to special files

Description

Section 4 of the manual describes special files (devices).

Files

/dev/* — device files

Notes

Authors And Copyright Conditions

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See Also

  1. mknod(1),
  2. mknod(2),
  3. standards(7)

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