On 19 October 2014 16:32, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:

> Only a few have any sort of global
> significance, and even that's probably a mistake.
>

Ignore that: that statement's wrong since they appear in bind operations in
bind(1), bind(2), /lib/namespace and similar contexts.

I also forgot to add that ls -l shows you the type character: ls -l /dev
shows you where different names are produced.