In message <437A69D4.3010103@2005.smokva.net>, Petar Bogdanovic writes:
>Hello,
>
>I don't understand the magic behind the device special files, /dev, 
>MAKEDEV, block/character/fifo and mknod. It's not about details - it's 
>more about the fact, that I am not able to imagine the whole thing.
>
>Can somebody help me with a hint, tutorial or something else? The 
>MAKEDEV-/mknod-manpage helped just a little bit..
>

In all seriousness, go back to the original Ritchie and Thompson CACM 
paper on Unix.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb