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Linux is still about opening, reading, and writing to files, it tries to keep a common interface; it's all about read() and write(). Looking at fuchsia's system
by CodeArtisan 9y ago
Linux is still about opening, reading, and writing to files, it tries to keep a common interface; it's all about read() and write(). Looking at fuchsia's system calls, it seems to have a different interface for each types of objects.
- monocasa 9y agoLinux calls into object specific ioctls and system calls to do anything interesting.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 9y agoTurns out you actually can't just treat everything like a file because, oddly, not everything is actually a file.
- monocasa 9y agoPlan 9 makes a strong argument that you can, just Linux doesn't.