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[–] SleepingInTraffic@feddit.uk 57 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)
[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What about a process? File gone wild?

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’d call that a file loaded to memory

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Most files are loaded to memory in order to make any kind of use out of them. I.e. read/write operations.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

That’s true! I supposed it would be more precise to say that all processes are files loaded to memory, but not all files loaded to memory are processes. Sort of like the whole arachnids / spiders situation.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Why not? Represented in /proc? exec() and fam? Read and write to it?

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