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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by 1_player on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:09PM (#20308369)
Nothing is ever "pure". Linux isn't pure, ultimate Unix philosophy.

ioctl, mmap, sockets could be represented as files, why not?

`echo 1 > /root/some-file/%lock` instead of fcntl(F_SETLK) -- I just made up this syntax

`echo SIGTERM > /proc/15683/signal` instead of kill

Not sure about mmap, since its very purpose it to map a file to memory.

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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by DonHopkins on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:43PM (#20308642)
>ioctl, mmap, sockets could be represented as files, why not?

The fact that they're not may be a clue to answering that question.

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