You can mmap() devices and you can mmap files..
you cannot mmap FIFOs or sockets.
for this reason I think that devices are still well represented by
vnodes. If we merged vnodes and vm objects,
then if devices were not vnodes, how would you represent
a vm area that maps a device?
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