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by akoboldfrying 67 days ago
The backing store being used by map() is still a file in a filesystem, so I would say their overall claim is technically true. It's the "exactly like your code does when it calls open()" part that oversimplifies a little (though, again, remains technically true -- it's just giving an example of a thing you can do with a file, not exhaustively listing all the things you can do with a file).