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Special Files

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What are the special files under Unix, what are they used for?

References:
http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-3-sect-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/...iles#37831
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_file_types
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/...nix-system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link
https://kb.iu.edu/d/abbe
https://kb.iu.edu/d/aibc
https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/understan...links.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_descriptor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_file
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/...pe-of-file
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog...dirHistory
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/...07s02.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lpg/node15.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2156
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/free...01143.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_domain_socket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doors_(computing)
http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txt


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