bug#24547: 24.4; dired should colour in sockets and pipes

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> Currently the face name is 'dired-socket', but this doesn't seem right
> since it's used not only for socket, but also for pipe, block and character
> devices.  Is 'dired-special' a better name?  At least the manual
> (info "(coreutils) What information is listed") named them "special file".

`dired-special' sounds like a better name; yes.  (I'm not sure whether
sockets are usually called special files, but the other ones covered by
the face are, I think.)

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