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intro(7)
introduction to special files
From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.
Also by this name: intro(1), General commands · intro(1M), System administration commands · intro(8), System maintenance and boot · intro(2), System calls · intro(3), Libraries: curses, OPEN LOOK and others · intro(5), Character sets, environment, package files · intro(1A), Amiga-specific commands · intro(2Z), XENIX system calls · intro(3A), Amiga-specific libraries · intro(3M), Math library · intro(5A), Amiga-specific data formats · intro(7A), Amiga-specific devices
NAME
intro - introduction to special files
DESCRIPTION
This section describes various special files that refer to specific hardware peripherals, and UNIX system device drivers. STREAMS [see intro(2)] software drivers, modules and the STREAMS-generic set of ioctl(2) system calls are also described. For hardware related files, the names of the entries are generally derived from names for the hardware, as opposed to the names of the special files themselves. Characteristics of both the hardware device and the corresponding UNIX system device driver are discussed where applicable.
Disk device file names are in the following format:
/dev/{r}dsk/c#d#s#
where r indicates a raw interface to the disk, the c# indicates the controller number, d# indicates the device attached to the controller and s# indicates the section number of the partitioned device.
SEE ALSO
Disk/Tape Management in the System Administrator's Guide.