I hope the new API is flexible enough to support my proposed /dev/seven, an infinite source of ^G.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17532285

>DonHopkins on July 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The everything-is-a-file principle – Linus Torvald...

>I always wanted /dev/zero, which is used to mmap zeros into memory, to be more general and use the device minor number to define which byte gets mapped, so you could mknod /dev/seven with a minor number of 7, to provide an infinite source of beeps!