c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · alectronic@piefed.zip · 14 Sep 2026 04:38 Blew My Mind Into Orbit check post at origin
Yep, takes a moment to wrap your head around but the longer you read linux/unix documentation, the more it makes sense why it is the case.
tldr: it’s to have nicer, less complicated I/O operations
it enables just having two API calls: read() and write() to do everything