• bruhbeans@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Thank you. Article kept referring to them as “streams” which is meaningless in the context of Linux. Writing this article without describing or even mentioning file handles is a disservice.

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      1 month ago

      Really? C++ uses the word stream to refer to abstractions that are buffers for reading/writing (depending permission).

      How would files and streams differ in that case?

      I guess you’re saying file handles can be pointing to memory instead of storage but I always think of the word “file” for data written to storage instead of ram. What makes it meaningless in the context of Linux?