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minus-squareSleepingInTraffic@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58arrow-down1·1 month agoEverything is a file
minus-squarewhatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·1 month agoI’d call that a file loaded to memory
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month 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 month 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 month agoWhy not? Represented in /proc? exec() and fam? Read and write to it?
minus-squarePoopingCough@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoI mean, with virtualization that’s pretty much true
minus-squareSatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoYou can open me in Vim, Greg. Am I a file?
minus-squareNigelFrobisher@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month 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.