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minus-squareSleepingInTraffic@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55arrow-down1·1 day agoEverything is a file
minus-squarewhatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·1 day agoI’d call that a file loaded to memory
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoMost files are loaded to memory in order to make any kind of use out of them. I.e. read/write operations.
minus-squarewhatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoThat’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.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoWhy not? Represented in /proc? exec() and fam? Read and write to it?
minus-squarePoopingCough@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoI mean, with virtualization that’s pretty much true
minus-squareSatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoYou can open me in Vim, Greg. Am I a file?
minus-squareNigelFrobisher@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·23 hours agoFiles are just streams. Everything is just a stream, in real life too.
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?
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.