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In Linux systems all hardware devices are treated as files. More about this in Chapter 3 of Volume 2.
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Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming, www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html
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Linuxtopia, Basics of the Unix Philosophy, www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/programming_books/art_of_unix_programming/ch01s06.html
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Wikipedia, Ken Thompson, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
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A data stream taken from special device files random, urandom, and zero, for example, can continue forever without some form of external termination such as the user entering Ctrl-C, a limiting argument to the command or a system failure.
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We will learn more about device files and the /dev directory in Chapter 3 of Volume 2.
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Wikipedia, Biography of Douglas McIlroy, www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/biography
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Princeton University, Interview with Douglas McIlroy, www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/precis/mcilroy.htm
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Both, D. (2020). Data Streams. In: Using and Administering Linux: Volume 1. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5049-5_9
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