ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Pseudofile

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Pseudofile is a noun meaning (computing) A file that does not represent a file on the underlying file system on disk, but instead is automatically generated to represent some other object in the form of a file (for example '/proc/cpuinfo' in Linux).

Meaning

(computing) A file that does not represent a file on the underlying file system on disk, but instead is automatically generated to represent some other object in the form of a file (for example '/proc/cpuinfo' in Linux).

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Related dictionary entries include pseudo-file, pseudodirectory, pseudodevice, pseudoblock, pseudointerface, pseudostate.

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