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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What about a process? File gone wild?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’d call that a file loaded to memory

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, with virtualization that's pretty much true

[–] akilou 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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