On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 07:04:51PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 25/12/2020 à 18:18, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > >>> Hearing this thread's perplexity, I long for the days of mknod. > >> But that wouldn't have helped with the network interfaces, because (in > >> an un-Unixy way) their names have never been file names on the systems > >> we're discussing now. > > I wonder why. Historical accident? Or some deep technical reason? > > I guess it's historical: historically there was only character > devices and block devices, and no provision for other categories, and > maybe no provision in the bitfields which qualify the associated special > files.
That makes sense. Thank you. > > These device special files are used in particular to write to and > read from and I think nobody wants this to happen with network devices. > AFAIU, there are a lot of devices which don't show up in /dev, like all > the intermediate devices, the ones which handle USB, SCSI, SATA, PCI. > > -- Didier > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
