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		wolletd on March 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I summarized my understanding of Linux systems Also, a lot of devices require very specific ioctl() commands to work with and don't provide everything as a file. For example, you can't set the baudrate of a serial port by writing it to some /proc node.

arghwhat on March 14, 2024 [–]

nit: The ioctl syscall targets files just the same as the write syscall.

Everything being a file, and everything being read/write calls are different things. There's pros and cons.

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