Agreed! I think the general principle of doing UNIXy stuff is "use the capabilities of processes and the filesystem your units of abstraction". It comes out qui

Agreed! I think the general principle of doing UNIXy stuff is "use the capabilities of processes and the filesystem your units of abstraction". It comes out quite nicely sometimes. Another example is SLURM, where processes are used as context managers for keeping track of allocations.