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Everything is a file
What about a process? File gone wild?
I’d call that a file loaded to memory
Most files are loaded to memory in order to make any kind of use out of them. I.e. read/write operations.
That’s true! I supposed it would be more precise to say that all processes are files loaded to memory, but not all files loaded to memory are processes. Sort of like the whole arachnids / spiders situation.
Why not? Represented in /proc? exec() and fam? Read and write to it?
Uhm, actually, process just exposes kernel data structures with the file system API. It's not actually a file
I mean, with virtualization that's pretty much true
What about a folder?
Pregonte file
Is that how babby formed
how to mkdir
If you can open it in Vim, it's a file.
You can open me in Vim, Greg. Am I a file?
Files are just streams. Everything is just a stream, in real life too.