Invent Yourself wrote: [snip]
We say that the water is contained by a jar because we can easily imagine water that's not contained by a jar. Can we have data "outside" of a file? Does the mere recording of data instantiate a file if we ever hope to find it again? (/dev/null is a distraction that will be ignored.)
Eve if we are using "file" in the broad, unixy sense (to include executables, symbolic links etc) I still think we can have data which is not a file. What about output? Are the commands sent by the ppp daemon to my modem really files?
mu'o mi'e solri --"Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it."
- Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin