That’s all fine and good, but that’s not quite related to the “everything is a file” metaphor. The data is still stored in files and accessed using conventional io and the command itself is routinely piped to other commands.
Everything being a file is extremely pervasive in unix, and I couldn’t think of what systemd was doing that went in opposition to the metaphor.
journalctl. I don’t give a damn as to where the logs are, and I just have telljournalctlto give me the logs for whatever I want.But for a tool that read log configs and find that out for you, you’ve let Timers into your home.
That’s all fine and good, but that’s not quite related to the “everything is a file” metaphor. The data is still stored in files and accessed using conventional io and the command itself is routinely piped to other commands.
Everything being a file is extremely pervasive in unix, and I couldn’t think of what systemd was doing that went in opposition to the metaphor.