INTRO(4)                            Linux Programmer's Manual                            INTRO(4)



NAME
       intro - introduction to special files

DESCRIPTION
       Section 4 of the manual describes special files (devices).

FILES
       /dev/* — device files

NOTES
   Authors and copyright conditions
       Look  at  the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and copyright conditions.
       Note that these can be different from page to page!

SEE ALSO
       standards(7)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.74 of the Linux man-pages project.  A  description  of  the
       project,  information  about  reporting  bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be
       found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                                       2007-10-23                                   INTRO(4)