device file

Paterson built these names into the operating system as device files so that any program could use them.

The nodes exist in a virtual device file system named devfs.

However, in Linux, uses the kernel to read or write to raw device files.

DOS uses device files for access to printers and ports.

It is a device file (it can be made with mknod for instance), but does not reference any hardware.

These were not true device files, however, because their handling was limited to PIP.

Device files often provide simple interfaces to peripheral devices, such as printers and serial ports.

Link keys may be stored on the device file system, not on the Bluetooth chip itself.

Although character and block device files already existed, their semantics don't map well to the way that flash memory devices operate.

Device files are used to apply access rights and to direct operations on the files to the appropriate device drivers.

Files may be copied to device files (e.g. sends the file to the printer on lpt1.

It is a more efficient way of writing zeros to a disk (device file) than using /dev/zero.

The master device file, which generally has a nomenclature similar to , is the endpoint for communication with the terminal emulator.

Finally, device files are useful for accessing system resources that have no connection with any actual device such as data sinks and random number generators.

This copies the entire source directory tree including all special files, such as symlinks or character or block device files.

There are two general kinds of device files in Unix-like operating systems, known as character special files and block special files.

Whenever the filesystem is changed, the kernel passes notifications via the special device file to a userspace process called .

Enabling disk use on an iPod allows accessing the file system and hence copying to or from the device files for storage, backup or copy.

A startup script that ensures that device files have the correct Smack attributes and loads the Smack configuration.

A device file system represents I/O devices and pseudo-devices as files, called device files.

Under Unix, devices are files too, so the normal type of file for the shell used for stdin,stdout and stderr is a tty device file.

The association provides the user with an API that allows the file to be used in place of a block special file (cf. device file system).

A device file is a reserved keyword used in DOS and DOS-based systems to allow access to certain ports and devices.

Currently duplicity supports deleted files, full Unix permissions, directories, and symbolic links, fifos, and device files, but not hard links.

A controlling terminal was acquired when a process with no controlling terminal opens a terminal device file that isn't already the controlling terminal for some other process.