On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:20:21 -0500
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 04:41:37PM +, Sad Clouds wrote:
> >
> > The whole idea of Unix was "everything is a file" and the sooner people
> > get rid of magic ioctls the better.
>
> But everything is *not*, actually, a file, and
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 04:16:03AM -, Michael van Elst wrote:
> t...@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
>
> >Probably not a good idea to start with lseek() because if you _do_
> >encounter a tape device, seeking to SEEK_END could take you an extremely
> >long time.
>
> lseek() doesn't mo
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 04:41:37PM +, Sad Clouds wrote:
>
> The whole idea of Unix was "everything is a file" and the sooner people
> get rid of magic ioctls the better.
But everything is *not*, actually, a file, and forcing things that
are not files into file-like shapes is not always the ri
