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Why does Linux use files to represent drives?

 
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Old 11-01-2008
Question Why does Linux use files to represent drives?
Why does Linux use files to represent drives such as pipes and network connections?
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Old 11-01-2008
Can you please be more specific.
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Old 11-02-2008
a file is a device is a file
This is one of the basic Unix principles. writing to a serial port is as easy as writing to a file.
Why don't other OS should be the question !
 
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