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[-] DrTeeth@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago
[-] PixelProf@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

This mouse? Believe it or not, file.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

/dev/input/mouse0 or whatever number you may have if for some reason you have more of them. Plus the always present /dev/input/mice shared between all mouse devices.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

cat /dev/input/mouse0

[-] Alatain@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Computer mouse or live mouse? Yes

[-] iesou@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Straight to file.

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I've always enjoyed this about my pathetic attempts to get into *nix, but what are directors, then? Are they somehow a 'file' as well?

Honest question - I'm just a Windows doofus

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Logically, everything stored to disc is a file. There are no physical folds or branching on a harddrive's platter. Everything is (this is simplified) listed one at a time, end to end sequentially. A directory is just a special text file that lists all the addresses to files that are logically "inside of it".

With journaling file systems (aka modern file systems), this is either replaced or superceeded by the journal.

Moreso, in Linux, most things are also logically treated as files. In Windows, some settings are stored in a special database known as the registry--Linux has not. It just has text files. In windows, devices are in the device manager, in Linux, devices are just another directory. In Windows you have a special task manager to view open processes, in Linux we have /proc which is a virtual directory. Windows: user permissions are managed with the active directory application. Linux: file permissions. etc.

This means, instead of using special apps to view things, you can, if so inclined, just navigate and look at files using the usual terminal.

[-] kaba0@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Though to add: many things in your file system are listed as “files” in a directory, but are completely virtual with varying ways on what they do when written to/read from. (Also, linux has streams and files, not only files) E.g. /dev/null will read zeros, and discard data written to. But it has no physical backing.

[-] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

you are correct, directories are 4kb files

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