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minus-squareTruscape@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up47·4 days agoYep, 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.
minus-squaregandalf_der_13te@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agotldr: it’s to have nicer, less complicated I/O operations it enables just having two API calls: read() and write() to do everything
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