The correct abstraction is that a file is a device. A file is a section of a har...

immibis 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and syste...

The correct abstraction is that a file is a device. A file is a section of a hard disk which behaves like a whole disk. It also happens to be expandable.

cp's default behaviour for device files also happens to be very stupid.