Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Device_file> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 46 of
46
with 100 items per page.
- Device_file abstract "In Unix-like operating systems, a device 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 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.Device files often provide simple interfaces to peripheral devices, such as printers and serial ports. But they can also be used to access specific resources on those devices, such as disk partitions. Finally, device files are useful for accessing system resources that have no connection with any actual device such as data sinks and random number generators.MS-DOS borrowed the concept of special files from Unix, but renamed them devices. Because early versions of MS-DOS did not support a directory hierarchy, devices were distinguished from regular files by making their names reserved words. This means that certain file names were reserved for devices, and should not be used to name new files or directories.The reserved names themselves were chosen to be compatible with "special files" handling of PIP command in CP/M. There were two kinds of devices in MS-DOS: Block Devices (used for disk drives) and Character Devices (generally all other devices, including COM and PRN devices). PIPE, MAILSLOT, and MUP are other standard Windows devices.There are two general kinds of device files in Unix-like operating systems, known as character special files and block special files. The difference between them lies in how data written to them and read from them is processed by the operating system and hardware. These together can be called device special files in contrast to named pipes, which are not connected to a device but are not ordinary files either.".
- Device_file wikiPageExternalLink devfs_scsi.html.
- Device_file wikiPageExternalLink 6035.
- Device_file wikiPageID "18016986".
- Device_file wikiPageRevisionID "606669640".
- Device_file hasPhotoCollection Device_file.
- Device_file subject Category:Device_file.
- Device_file subject Category:Interfaces_of_the_Linux_kernel.
- Device_file subject Category:Linux_kernel-supported_pseudo_file_systems.
- Device_file subject Category:Special_purpose_file_systems.
- Device_file subject Category:Unix_file_system_technology.
- Device_file type Abstraction100002137.
- Device_file type Arrangement105726596.
- Device_file type ClassificationSystem105727220.
- Device_file type Cognition100023271.
- Device_file type FileSystem105732614.
- Device_file type PsychologicalFeature100023100.
- Device_file type SpecialPurposeFileSystems.
- Device_file type Structure105726345.
- Device_file type Genre.
- Device_file type MusicGenre.
- Device_file type TopicalConcept.
- Device_file type Concept.
- Device_file comment "In Unix-like operating systems, a device 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 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.Device files often provide simple interfaces to peripheral devices, such as printers and serial ports.".
- Device_file label "/dev".
- Device_file label "Archivo de dispositivo".
- Device_file label "Device file".
- Device_file label "Dispositivo a caratteri".
- Device_file label "Fichier spécial".
- Device_file label "Gerätedatei".
- Device_file label "Nó de dispositivo".
- Device_file label "Urządzenie znakowe".
- Device_file label "デバイスファイル".
- Device_file sameAs Gerätedatei.
- Device_file sameAs Archivo_de_dispositivo.
- Device_file sameAs Fichier_spécial.
- Device_file sameAs Dispositivo_a_caratteri.
- Device_file sameAs デバイスファイル.
- Device_file sameAs Urządzenie_znakowe.
- Device_file sameAs Nó_de_dispositivo.
- Device_file sameAs m.047sws7.
- Device_file sameAs Q14679.
- Device_file sameAs Q14679.
- Device_file sameAs Device_file.
- Device_file wasDerivedFrom Device_file?oldid=606669640.
- Device_file isPrimaryTopicOf Device_file.