Michael Casadevall, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 00:22:55 -0400, a écrit : > Maybe this falls under the "I'm an idiot" category, but isn't netio > essentially > the same as stream io? You open a socket, read in contents from the stream, it > blocks if its too full, etc.
Well, I guess that if linux didn't add eth0 to /dev, that must be because there is more to it than just read/write (like MAC address configuration etc). > The entropy kernel driver used the streamio API internally. Sure, since that's a stream of bytes :) BTW, you still haven't submitted a fixed patch (the list of concerns is still on the Savannah patch entry). Samuel