"Ian Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have heard it said that unix works entirely on files. It always baffled
> me to hear that, being a hardware engineer, and writing mostly in low level
> assemblers. Now I think I understand what what meant, and that all tasks
> are created as a 'file' and are acted on accordingly, hence the /dev
> directory and the /proc directory. Am I correct in assuming this ?
This is a pretty good summary, although it varies depending on the
Unix. Most Unixes don't do /proc like Linux does, if at all. OTOH,
some Unixes actually have devices in /dev for the networking.
/proc is more like an easy to use view of the internal structures in
the kernel. /prox/sys is where most of what you can fiddle with in
the /proc filesystem is.
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