That's why I put the word open in quotes.

In your example I would say that "opening" /dev/hda1 means that you are "opening" a set of which the file is a subset. "Opening" a set implies that you have "opened" all subsets. (note the continued use of quotation marks)

Because I know that someone will point out that opening a set does not imply opening all subsets (example: a box filled with other boxes) I will clarify that in this case I am refering to sets that contain only singletons (in this case bytes or blocks) as elements.

Update: fixed moderate typo.

In reply to Re^3: How to read contents of a file without opening it and print the contents by zek152
in thread How to read contents of a file without opening it and print the contents by anurag

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