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:
“Too often when you thought you’d be showered with confetti
What they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti
You’ve put your fancy clothes and flashy gems in hock
Yet you pause before your father’s door afraid to knock”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“I always have felt strange when we came home
To the dark house after so long an absence,
And the key rattled loudly into place
Seemed to warn someone to be getting out
At one door as we entered at another.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Each should sweep the snow from before his own door and not worry about the frost on his neighbor’s roof.”
—Chinese proverb.