Evolution of Unix section 4: Devices and special files

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Notes

• Click on the "Facility" or "Appearance" headers to change the sort order.
• Click on the timeline to see the manual page for the specified version of a facility.
• The name of a facility may have been repurposed over time.
• Facilities in sections 1, 6, 8 moved across sections over time. To allow a continuous view of their evolution, all have been relocated to the section of the most recent FreeBSD release, if they still existed at the time.
• The evolution data of collapsed tree nodes depict the evolution of the tree's first child node.