On 3 July 2011 12:55, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > and yet there's a key difference. this is a private joke amongst gnome > processes. i can give "file" references to gnome programs like > http://example.com > to a gnome proc. cat(1) won't accept the same reference.
Well yes, it would only make sense in an OS which only uses GIO, rather than standard Unix IO. cls