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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/store.md b/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/store.md index de12ac1dc..710d3265d 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/store.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/architecture/store/store.md @@ -88,11 +88,12 @@ Adding, building, copying and deleting store objects must be done in a way that ## Files and Processes -Nix provides a mapping between its store model and the [Unix paradigm](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file) that governs the interplay of [files and processes](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_descriptor). - -Nix encodes immutable store objects and opaque identifiers as file system primitives: files and directories, and paths. +Nix maps between its store model and the [Unix paradigm][unix-paradigm] of [files and processes][file-descriptor], by encoding immutable store objects and opaque identifiers as file system primitives: files and directories, and paths. That allows processes to resolve references contained in files and thus access the contents of store objects. +[unix-paradigm]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file +[file-descriptor]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_descriptor + ``` +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Nix | |