c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · alectronic@piefed.zip · 14 Sep 2026 04:38 Blew My Mind Into Orbit check post at origin
Directories are just files if you squint at then right, and sockets are basically files too. As another commenter said, it’s not that everything is literally a file, but that it presents as a file, and can be interacted with as one.