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		typedweb on July 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scheme 9 interpreter ported to Plan 9 (again) A file is an object that supports the methods open(), read(), write(), and a few others. That's about a generic as you can get.

agumonkey on July 4, 2015 [–]

If I write <data> /dev/net/tcp can I read and get <data> back ?

Can I append <data> /dev/mouse ?

Sharing {open,read,write,close} interface, but with exception and different semantics leads to a weird flavour of genericity.

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