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Subject: Re: [9fans] Documentation on special files
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man 3 intro


Tom Lieber wrote:
> In an inappropriate thread I appended a question about where to read
> about what special files are and how they work. I'm still wondering
> about this. I have questions like:
>
> - How are they created?
> - Can I get a list of all of them?
> - Do they behave differently than normal files?
>
> Are they described in one of the papers, or a man page?
>