systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file. There...

The BMP file format, or bitmap, is a raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device (such as...

task Computer, a computing device Device file, an interface of a peripheral device driver Electronic component, a device that can be embedded in the...

storage device for a file system. File systems such as tmpfs can store files in virtual memory. A virtual file system provides access to files that are...

In computing, a computer file is a resource for recording data on a computer storage device, primarily identified by its filename. Just as words can be...

systems, a loop device, vnd (vnode disk), or lofi (loop file interface) is a pseudo-device that makes a computer file accessible as a block device. Before use...

systems, the null device is a device file that discards all data written to it but reports that the write operation succeeded. This device is called /dev/null...

A Memory Technology Device (MTD) is a type of device file in Linux for interacting with flash memory. The MTD subsystem was created to provide an abstraction...

responsible for user access of files located on a data storage device. File viewers allow the user to open and view content on a device, such as a Personal Computer...

The device independent file format (DVI) is the output file format of the TeX typesetting program, designed by David R. Fuchs and implemented by Donald...

in the file system but are handled separately. Device files are used to apply access rights to the devices and to direct operations on the files to the...

protocol developed for the Plan 9 distributed operating system Device file Synthetic file system Unix architecture Filesystem Hierarchy Standard https://www...

A virtual device in Unix is a file such as /dev/null or /dev/urandom, that is treated as a device, as far as user level software is concerned, but is...

communications protocol that allows media files to be transferred automatically to and from portable devices. Whereas PTP was designed for downloading...

The following notable companies manufacture Network-attached Storage devices. File area network Disk enclosure Network architecture Global Namespace Server...

systems, a pseudoterminal, pseudotty, or PTY is a pair of pseudo-device endpoints (files) which establish asynchronous, bidirectional communication (IPC)...

which tells file to read device files and try to identify their contents rather than merely identifying them as device files. Normally file does not try...

called DIB file format or BMP file format. According to Microsoft support: A device-independent bitmap (DIB) is a format used to define device-independent...

openEuler server OS that is a cross-device file access where devices can read and edit files on transparently when the two devices are connected to the same network...

audio). Microsoft Windows .sys files and Linux .ko files can contain loadable device drivers. The advantage of loadable device drivers is that they can be...

A filename or file name is a name used to uniquely identify a computer file in a file system. Different file systems impose different restrictions on filename...

makes a USB device accessible to a host computing device and enables file transfers between the host and the USB device. To a host, the USB device acts as...

operating systems, a raw device is a special kind of logical device associated with a character device file that allows a storage device such as a hard disk...

which is to convert and copy files. On Unix, device drivers for hardware (such as hard disk drives) and special device files (such as /dev/zero and /dev/random)...

for creating V4L2 device nodes aka a device file (/dev/videoX, /dev/vbiX and /dev/radioX) and tracking data from these nodes. The device node creation is...

files and other data on demand from one location to another on a storage device. File copying is a fundamental operation for data storage.[citation needed]...

I/O devices with no file system of their own, such as devices that use magnetic tape. The archive data sets created by tar contain various file system...

keyboard or computer mouse is an input device for a computer, while monitors and printers are output devices. Devices for communication between computers...

"objects", as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems, which manage data as a file hierarchy, and block storage, which manages data as blocks...

/dev/full, or the always-full device, is a special file that always returns the error code ENOSPC (meaning "No space left on device") on writing, and provides...