On Sat 26 Jan 2019 at 06:44:07 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, January 26, 2019 06:18:59 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Network interfaces are not character nor block devices and do not have > > nodes in /dev. > > > > Reverting to the "natural" kernel names has issues : interface names may > > not be persistent and change across reboots. More details following the > > link provided by Alexander. > > Hmm, from the peanut gallery (and, at this time in the morning, pretty much > non-thinking (if I ever do ;-) (And I'm not the OP.): does that violate / > disprove the Linux meme that "everything is a file"?
As far as the user is concerned, isn't that what sockets are for? I assume it would be pointless for the kernel to expose an actual stream of bytes to anything but itself. Cheers, David.
