pseudofile

See also: pseudo-file

English

Alternative forms

pseudo-file

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ file

Noun

pseudofile (plural pseudofiles)

(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).

See also

pseudodirectory

Anagrams

pseudo-life, pseudolife

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