man4 - Device files / drivers

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

intro - introduction to special files

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

/dev/* — device files

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!

mknod(1), mknod(2), standards(7)

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manCCISS(4) cciss manCONSOLE_CODES(4) console_codes manIOCTL_CONSOLE(2) console_ioctl manCPUID(4) cpuid manDSP56K(4) dsp56k manFD(4) fd manFULL(4) full manFUSE(4) fuse manHD(4) hd manHPSA(4) hpsa manINITRD(4) initrd manINTRO(4) intro manMEM(4) kmem manLIRC(4) lirc manLOOP(4) loop manLOOP(4) loop-control manLP(4) lp manMEM(4) mem manMOUSE(4) mouse manMSR(4) msr manNULL(4) null manMEM(4) port manPTS(4) ptmx manPTS(4) pts manRAM(4) ram manRANDOM(4) random manRTC(4) rtc manSD(4) sd manSK98LIN(4) sk98lin manST(4) st manTTY(4) tty manTTYS(4) ttyS manIOCTL_TTY(2) tty_ioctl manRANDOM(4) urandom manVCS(4) vcs manVCS(4) vcsa manWAVELAN(4) wavelan manNULL(4) zero

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