On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 10:07:45PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file > > But, there is more than one kind of file. > > "All files are equal. > But some files are more equal than others." > > (George Orwell in his dystopic novel "Server Farm".)
:-D Yesterday I was on the brink of quoting that. Great minds and all of that... Reality though is, that if you don't design your file with magical properties from the get-go, you will keep stumbling on stuff you want to model and which don't fit the real life file design you chose. And yes, Plan 9, as someone else noted in this thread, takes that to a bigger extreme: in their windowing system, windows are files, too -- you can remove a window by deleting the corresponding file. Cheers -- t
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