[EMAIL PROTECTED], le Wed 06 Aug 2008 17:27:53 +0200, a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:44:44AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Michael Casadevall, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 00:22:55 -0400, a écrit : > > > 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). > > Well, if it was only *additional* operations that are required, there > would be no problem -- that's what ioctl()s are used for. The point is > rather that for network devices, the *standard* IO operations make no > sense.
Well, yes they do, see tap devices: read/write packets. Samuel
