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[–] SleepingInTraffic@feddit.uk 57 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What about a process? File gone wild?

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’d call that a file loaded to memory

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month 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 month 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 month ago

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

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

I mean, with virtualization that's pretty much true

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago
[–] kenoh@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

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