(thing) by KaB0b0 Fri Feb 08 2002 at 4:43:14

Name given to a file whose contents are not buffered (see block mode file). All operations performed on the aforementioned file occur immediately without passing through buffers. Some system character devices include /dev/zero and /dev/null.

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