> Cutler pretended to not like the "everything is a file" approach, but NT does basically the same thing with "everything is a handle". And soon enough, you hit exactly the same conceptual limitations (except not in the same places) that not everything is actually the same, so that cute abstraction leaks soon enough (well, it does in any OS).
Explain? Pretty much the only thing you can do with a handle is to release it. That's very different from a file, which you can read, write, delete, modify, add metadata to, etc... handles aren't even an abstraction over anything, they're just a resource management mechanism.
