On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 04:41:37PM +0000, 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 right design choice. As simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com "The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky
