I found this in a man page for ls
in solaris linux.
http://www.unix.com/man-page/opensolaris/1/ls/
What does it mean when it says:
D
the entry is a door?
doorlsmansolaris
I found this in a man page for ls
in solaris linux.
http://www.unix.com/man-page/opensolaris/1/ls/
What does it mean when it says:
D
the entry is a door?
Best Answer
A door is a special file in Solaris for bidirectional communication between processes (IPC). Doors provide client processes with a way to call remote code in a server process and fetch the result.
As @HBrujin stated, the Wikipedia article is a good entry point to doors (if that makes sense to you).
As explained by
ls
man page, doors are identified by the letterD
inls
output.