> What's the reason for device specials not to report their sizes?
The reason is compliance with Single UNIX v2 Specification, according to
which the st_size field of the stat structure used by stat(2) and friends
must contain the size of the file in bytes, if the file is a regular file.
Regards,
Tigran.
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