On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
V3 and earlier
still *called* them special files, but it seems they
were essentially just magic inode numbers (there was no physical file
on disk, just any directory entry with the given inode would be the
special file).
Isn't that still the case?
Wasn't that "devfs" (which Penguin/OS calls "udev")? I've
never grokked
that concept.
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