"Tom Van Looy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on unix everything is a file?
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
