Door
A door is a special file for inter-process communication between a client and server, currently implemented in the Sun Solaris operating system only.
A door is marked with a D (upper case) as the first letter of the mode string, e.g.
Read more about this topic: Unix File Types
Famous quotes containing the word door:
“... the door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)
“Yet the day wears,
And door succeeds door;
I try the fresh fortune—
Range the wide house from the wing to the centre,
Still the same chance! she goes out as I enter.
Spend my whole day in the quest,—who cares?”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)