Hello fellow nixers,
This thread is about Unix philosophy and files.

Quote:Everything is a file

I haven't really understood the principle behind this until yesterday.
I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night wondering:

Quote:But what's not a file?

Like someone that has lived in a cocoon for too long I was so accustomed to have everything as a file that I completely forgot about the rest.

I opened the Wiki and refreshed my mind. Then I casually browsed the internet and found threads such as this one.

I forgot about Operating systems where all the configurations are stored right inside the program itself, where to access the hardware or to interact with it you have to fight with a mountain of documents, where most of the important stuff happening is stored in memory and volatile.

Let's respect this philosophy and fight against any software in the Unix community that doesn't respect it!

Bump this thread with your opinion on files and your own stories.