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

What about a process? File gone wild?

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’d call that a file loaded to memory

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I mean, with virtualization that's pretty much true

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

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

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

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