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  84 NAME="FILEIO-DEVICES">Chapter 28. Devices</H1
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  86 >Devices are accessed by means of a pseudo-filesystem, &quot;devfs&quot;, that is
  87 mounted on &quot;/dev&quot;. Open operations are translated into calls to
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  90 >cyg_io_lookup()</TT
  91 > and if successful result in a file object whose
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  95 >f_ops</I
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  97 > functions translate filesystem API functions into calls into
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