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Timeline for Char devices and filesystem nodes

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Jul 3, 2020 at 11:35 vote accept Suraaj K S
Jun 22, 2020 at 13:03 comment added Andy Dalton @SuraajKS All of those are character device files ("filesystem nodes"). Do some happen to interact with the same hardware sometimes? Yes, but that's not a fundamental aspect of the concept of character device files/drivers. See, for instance, unix.stackexchange.com/a/60649/90691
Jun 22, 2020 at 11:36 comment added Suraaj K S Well, my issue was with why the book distinguishes /dev/tty0 and /dev/ttyS0. The book says that device files like the latter are "accessed by" device files such as the former. That is, device files (/dev/ttyS0) are accessed by filesystem nodes (/dev/tty0)
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