Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 04:50:50PM -0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2024-02-11, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:54:24AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> If FILE is -, shred standard output.
> >>=20
> >> In every sentence, the word FILE appears. There's nothing in there
> >> which says "you can operate on a non-file".
> >
> > Point taken, yes.
>
> I thought everything was a file.
An anonymous pipe(2) in memory between two processes isn't even close to
a file. Also, you're confusing Linux and Plan 9. Linux has a bunch of
things that aren't files, such as network interfaces.
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