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		timwis on Nov 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Acc... Particularly interesting in light of linux's "everything is a file" principle...sockets, printers..

pjmlp on Nov 12, 2018 [–]

Actually that is an UNIX thing, and not everything is a file on UNIX.

On Plan 9 and Inferno everything is indeed a file.

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