Day: GNOME OS

Oh yes, true enough. Of course the most important part of this is the 'always running the same code' part. You don't have to hold the files open: if there are lots of little ones you might prefer to suck them into memory instead.

(Obviously this model will not apply to everything, but it does in fact apply to a lot. You need an abstraction around file I/O to do it, but Chrome already *has* that, and thanks to libio and open_memstream() anything can get it quite easily, without major rewrites.)