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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Tue,  6 Feb 2018 20:38:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Device special files
Message-ID: <20180207013825.2222218C0A4@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

    > From: Greg Lehey

    >> 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?

>From reading the manual page (URL sent earlier), in V3 and before it really
was just an inode _number_ (less than 50, IIRC). The first inode, in the
first disk block after the super-block, was inode #51. This is of course
different from later Versions, where there is an _inode_ for devices, but
still no actual _file_.

	Noel