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I am unable to figure out the exact difference between character devices vs Terminal devices vs Streams. Any help is very much appreciated.
Thanks & Regards,
Mousey.
Character devices are those which transmit one character at a time and are used for “stream” based I/O. Examples are modems, keyboards, mouse etc. They do not allow random access on data.
Streams – It is the communication framework of unix. it provides full-duplex mode of communication. Character special files, named pipes, and sockets are actually streams and not files.
Terminal devices – Not sure what you mean by “terminal devices”. But I think you are refering to TTYs or tele-typewritters or computer terminals (monitors). Please be clear on this.