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[-] SleepingInTraffic@feddit.uk 57 points 1 year ago
[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

What about a process? File gone wild?

[-] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

I’d call that a file loaded to memory

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I mean, with virtualization that's pretty much true

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago
[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago
[-] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago
[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago
[-] kenoh@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

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

this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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