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		mrcode007 on May 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and syste... Ha. Today I learned. Is this a portable approach across macOS, Linux and BSD family ?

chipdart on May 16, 2024 [–]

> Is this a portable approach across macOS, Linux and BSD family ?

I think that feature relies in the concept of a device file, which is a direct reflection of the UNIX trait of everything being a file.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file

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