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Device Drivers

Oct 9, 2014

Device driver used to interact with device. Major number is used to identify device driver.

  • Character Device: writes and reads character by character. Operates in blocking way (synchronous, user must wait for completion). More common.
  • Block Device: write/read block by block (larfer).
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