intro(4)

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✨ intro(4) — introduction to special files ✨

okay bestie, welcome to section 4 of the manual, aka the Kernel Interfaces Manual 🎀 this is where all the special files hang out. you know, devices. the whole vibe of this section is "things in /dev that are actually hardware wearing a filesystem costume" 💅

💖 NAME 💖

intro — introduction to special files

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Section 4 of the manual describes special files, a.k.a. devices. that's it. that's the section. every page you find in here is a device, and this little intro is your little welcome mat 🫶

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • /dev/* — device files 🔥

🎀 NOTES 🎀

bestie, pls don't @ me for this one: you gotta look at the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and the copyright conditions. and honestly? these can be different from page to page! 😭 so no assuming, no copy-pasting one answer across the whole section, check each one fr fr 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page, periodt 💜 this was lifted straight outta Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2025-05-17 — iconic, we stan, slay 💅✨

📦 where this page comes from
  • arch rolling: man-pages 6.20-1 · BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4.3TAHOE AND BSD-4-Clause-UC AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-linking-exception AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-UltraPermissive AND Linux-man-pages-1-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-2-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-var AND MIT AND Spencer-94
  • nixpkgs unstable: man-pages 6.20
  • 📜 the page's license: GPL-2.0-or-later
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