device file

The device, file, block, or other entity that supplies characters to refill the input buffer.

Now, on to the explanations. Beside each device file listed below is a dissection of what the letters mean.

The windows registry or System. ini file refers to this device file but the file no longer exists.

Pertaining to a system, device, file, or facility that can be used in the event of a malfunction or LOSS of data.

This implementation accesses the USB devices through the virtual USB device file system (usbdevfs).

For other device file names and detailed device information, try the command dmesg.

if you still want to use the application associated with this device file, try reinstalling that application to replace the missing file.

(changing the partition device file name as necessary).

Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run Windows or a Windows Application.

(changing the device file name as necessary); however, this method doesn't always work.

fd is the file descriptor of the device file.

But to open it, you need to know the device file associated with the hard drive that you want to change.

The device that is accessed using the device file.

Open the SCSI generic device file (such as sg1) to get the file descriptor of SCSI device.

Another, less common, type of device file is the named

Comparing device file names and path names

Mouse Symbolic link to the mouse device file