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Plan 9 has addressed some of the leaks in this abstraction, many things are significantly more "file-like". Still, it's possible that open/read/write/seek is j
by rhelmer 13y ago
Plan 9 has addressed some of the leaks in this abstraction, many things are significantly more "file-like".
Still, it's possible that open/read/write/seek is just not the right abstraction in all cases. http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/everything_is_file.html http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/everything_is_file.html is interesting reading.
- nknighthb 13y agoI think it's interesting more in the sense of understanding what Unix is today. It doesn't really read as an argument against a Plan9-like realization of everything-is-a-file. I'd summarize those posts in two main points: 1) Linux isn't a research project. 2) Bringing a Plan 9-like realization of everything-is-a-file into modern Unix really just creates an even uglier chimera than Unix already is.