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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What about a process? File gone wild?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’d call that a file loaded to memory

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most files are loaded to memory in order to make any kind of use out of them. I.e. read/write operations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That’s true! I supposed it would be more precise to say that all processes are files loaded to memory, but not all files loaded to memory are processes. Sort of like the whole arachnids / spiders situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Why not? Represented in /proc? exec() and fam? Read and write to it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I mean, with virtualization that's pretty much true

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you can open it in Vim, it's a file.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

You can open me in Vim, Greg. Am I a file?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Files are just streams. Everything is just a stream, in real life too.