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[–] SleepingInTraffic@feddit.uk 54 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What about a process? File gone wild?

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’d call that a file loaded to memory

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day 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 day ago

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

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I mean, with virtualization that's pretty much true

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago
[–] kenoh@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 23 hours ago

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