/dev

UNIX place in the filestructure where devices are generally found. See /dev/null and /dev/god.

/dev Metanode

• /dev/console
• /dev/dsp
• /dev/js
• /dev/null
• /dev/random
• /dev/speech
• /dev/video
• /dev/zero
• devfs (which is a system for implementing the entire set of devices in /dev, rather than a single device)

• cp /dev/zero /dev/null
• cp /dev/null /dev/zero
• dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
• catting weird things to /dev/audio/
• Using /dev/audio to eavesdrop

• /dev/god
• For the love of /dev/god
• /dev/jesus
• /dev/hell
• /dev/full
• /dev/fuckit
• /dev/windows
• /dev/bsod
• Dev
• /dev/mug
• /dev/sex
• /dev/node
• /dev/bell
• Error Reading /dev/e2:
• Is /dev/joe a block device?
• Pipe /dev/joe to /dev/null (yes, somebody's even started creating nodeshells about me)
• so THAT's what /dev/joe looks like.
• /dev/ttyTV
• /dev/billg
• /dev/cake
• She had been sent to /dev/null

• dev/nul
• -dev/null
• Dev Null
• /dev/null node
• /dev/null node1
• /dev/null node2
• /dev/null node3
• /dev/null node4
• /dev/null node5
• /dev/null node6
• /dev/null node7
• /dev/null node8
• /dev/null node9
• /dev/null node10
• /dev/null node11
• /dev/null node12
• /dev/null node13
• /dev/null node14
• /dev/null node15
• /dev/null node16
• /dev/null node17
• /dev/null node18
• /dev/null node19
• /dev/null node20
• /dev/null node21
• /dev/null node22
• /dev/null node23

As of the 2.6.0 Linux Kernel devfs (which is responsible for maintaining /dev) is now considered obsolete and moved away from kernel space. For the 2.7.0 release of the kernel the powers that be will recommend that devfs be removed from the kernel.

A userland daemon called udev now takes care of /dev.