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From what I've always understood, the philosophy isn't "everything is a file" (the unified namespace variant), but "everything is a file descriptor" (the API ki
by zorbo 13y ago
From what I've always understood, the philosophy isn't "everything is a file" (the unified namespace variant), but "everything is a file descriptor" (the API kind).
- chetanahuja 13y agoWell my point was that I personally find the idea of a unified namespace for global system objects (files, pipes, sockets, processes etc) more powerful than the idea of a unified namespace of fd's within a single process.