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Device file
In
Unix-like
operating systems
, a
device file
or
special file
is an
interface
for a
device driver
that appears in a
file system
as if it were an ordinary
file
. There are also special files in
MS-DOS
,
OS/2
, and
Microsoft Windows
. They allow software to interact with a device driver using standard
input/output
system calls
, which simplifies many tasks and unifies user-space I/O mechanisms.
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