Ok, i’m on board. Thank thou two

Yeah, but I think it is speaking in first person, about itself. So it should be “I saw” and “I think”, regardless of its pronouns in third person.

Yea, but socket is not a file. Maybe if you stretch the definition.

Well in any case, when people say that linux is great because everything is a file, they either mean that:

• they can edit configuration of most things with a text editor, or that
• in bash (and other shells) it is easy to work with byte streams, piping them from one process to another and compose complex behaviour from simple commands.

It could be a process, which you can talk to only via an IPC call. For example, dbus