From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] Ethernet in /dev (was Re: Were all of you.. Hippies?)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:05:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <035c01d2a96f$6555ee00$3001ca00$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1490889329.23882.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
It's a violation of the network layering concept to require or even allow
the user to bind the application data streams to a physical device.
-----Original Message-----
From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Norman Wilson
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 11:55 AM
To: tuhs at tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Ethernet in /dev (was Re: Were all of you.. Hippies?)
Josh Good:
Which brings up a question I have: why didn't UNIX implement ethernet
network interfaces as file names in the filesystem? Was that "novelty" a
BDS development straying away from AT&T UNIX?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-30 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-30 15:55 Norman Wilson
2017-03-30 16:05 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2017-03-30 16:14 ` ron minnich
2017-03-30 16:48 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-30 19:24 Norman Wilson
2017-03-30 19:24 Norman Wilson
2017-03-30 22:11 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-31 4:39 ` arnold
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