Section4
From Linux Man Pages
Special files (usually found in /dev)
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A
atalk - AppleTalk protocol family
C
console - console terminal and virtual consoles
console_codes - Linux console escape and control sequences
console ioctl - ioctl's for console terminal and virtual consoles
D
dsp56k - DSP56001 interface device
E
epoll - I/O event notification facility
F
fifo - first-in first-out special file, named pipe
full - always full device
futex - Fast Userspace Locking
H
hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices
I
initrd - boot loader initialized RAM disk
intro - Introduction to special files
isdn_audio - audio extension of ttyI ISDN character devices
isdnctrl - ISDN control device
isdninfo - ISDN status device
K
L
M
md - Multiple Device driver aka Linux Software Raid
mem, kmem, port - system memory, kernel memory and system ports
MIFF - Magick Image File Format is a platform-independent format for storing bitmap images.
MIFF is a part of the ImageMagick toolkit of image manipulation utilities for the X Window System.
ImageMagick is capable of converting many different image file formats to and from MIFF (e.g. JPEG, XPM, TIFF, etc.).
mouse - serial mouse interface
N
P
4:port
4:ptmx
ptmx and pts - pseudo-terminal master and slave
R
ram - ram disk device
random, urandom - kernel random number source devices
S
sd - Driver for SCSI Disk Drives
st - SCSI tape device
T
tty - controlling terminal
tty ioctl - ioctls for terminals and serial lines
ttyI - ISDN character devices with modem emulator
ttyS - serial terminal lines
U
V
vcs, vcsa - virtual console memory
4:vcsa
W
wavelan - AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver