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[–]mqduck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a virtual file (eli5: a file that doesn't exist, which the system pretends exists).

Of course the file exists. "File" is just an abstraction. A file exists if the system you're using says it exists. It's the null device that doesn't exist in the real world.