On 22 Oct 2007 01:30:57 +0200, Artur Grabowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tom Van Looy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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 > 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 > > -- www.ropersonline.com
