4 Nov
2018
4 Nov
'18
11:53 a.m.
On Nov 1, 2018, at 3:20 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
With Unix, everything looks like a file, but as I said, the sockets API broke that
convention, forcing users to work at a much lower level than necessary.
This was broken from the start though, and always really meant everything looks like a
file *descriptor*, not a path in the filesystem.
There are tons of non-file descriptor namespaces on UNIX platforms. At least some later
systems have tried to create a hierarchical “object” abstraction of which file descriptors
are just one subtype.
-- Chris