On 22 Oct 2007 01:30:57 +0200, Artur Grabowski  wrote:

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> "Tom Van Looy"  writes:

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> > on unix everything is a file?

s/unix/Plan 9/g

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
> no, it's not. It's the dumbed down "truth" so that you can explain to

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> random people what the hell Unix is, or rather to make them have a

> dumb look on their face and nod.

>

> A process is not a file, a memory region is not a file, the sysctl tree

> is not a file, there's plenty of stuff that is as far from files as

> you can get. Many directory operations are explicitly not done on file

> descriptors because it would be too complicated.

>

> //art

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