Re: All the unicorns are dead on Linux (was: How to compare contents of two folders against third one?)

[Paul Duncan <paul.d@soi-team.org>]

Okay, I'm gonna throw a bit more fuel onto this fire :-)

On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 at 15:58, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:

If you ask folks like Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, they will tell you
all the unicorns are dead on Linux because everything is _not_ a file.
The only safe harbor for the unicorns are Plan9 and now Inferno. Plan9
and Inferno carry on the original Unix philosophy of "everything is a
file."

What you call a directory does not matter because the unicorns were
nearly extinct already.

Yes, but we (on Linux and I *think* on good old System V and BSD 4.3) have mkfile and mkdir - so surely that means that everything (stored on a bit of rotating rust) is *not* a file :-)

Cheers! 

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