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Date: Thu,  2 Feb 2006 19:29:06 +0000
From: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Van Jacobsen's network stack restructure
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	from quanstro@quanstro.net on Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:50:14PM
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:50:14PM +0000, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> more fundamentally, bsd missed the point of unix. what file does
> a socket fd reference?

Hmm.  It seems to a large extent they (and linux definitly) have moved
from "everything is a file" to "everything is a file descriptor".

DF

> 
> - erik
> 
> On Wed Feb  1 19:32:00 CST 2006, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
> > > nobody was even thinking about dynamic devices when networking
> > > was added to linux
> > 
> > s/linux/the original bsd/
> > s/dynamic //
> > in fact, s/about devices //
> >