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One of the great benefits of a console interface is that it's a lowest common denominator between different OS. That interface is based on a byte-level I/O mode
by mark-r 11y ago
One of the great benefits of a console interface is that it's a lowest common denominator between different OS. That interface is based on a byte-level I/O model. Things like I/O redirection depend on it.
- be5invis 11y agoThey can implement an alternative driver to convert IO streams into API calls. And that's how libuv did.