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Replace "is considered 'special'" with "represents a device". The latter
is more clear and is derived from the stat() man page. The former is
also derived from the man page, but is ambiguous because:

* "considered" introduces doubt. Is it, or isn't it?
* "special" is never defined. "represents a device" communicates more
  meaning.
* "special" is in scare-quotes, introducing more doubt as to what
  exactly it means.

Refs: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fstat.2.html

PR-URL: #34094
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Ujjwal Sharma <ryzokuken@disroot.org>
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Trott authored and MylesBorins committed Jul 16, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ The numeric group identifier of the group that owns the file (POSIX).

* {number|bigint}

A numeric device identifier if the file is considered "special".
A numeric device identifier if the file represents a device.

### `stats.size`

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