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Date: Wed,  1 Feb 2006 18:55:20 +0000
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Van Jacobsen's network stack restructure
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what the bash shell supports and what linux kernel supports are, after all,
two seperate and not necessiarly related things.

bash runs on more than linux, after all.

- erik

On Wed Feb  1 18:50:13 CST 2006, leimy2k@gmail.com wrote:
> On 2/1/06, quanstro@quanstro.net <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > c'mon. linux has consistently gone the other way on this issue.
> > linux doesn't even have a device node for network interfaces.
> >
> > i don't know anything about the reasoning for this. efficiency?
> > support for a static /dev? i don't know.
> >
> 
> The bash shell supports /dev/tcp.... kind of evil but you can make
> connections and send strings via file redirection with it.
> 
> Dave
>