From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:26:49 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Sockets and the true UNIX In-Reply-To: <201709211613.v8LGDcuN015299@darkstar.fourwinds.com> References: <20170921160112.ctpv4a52t5rjcqzg@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <201709211613.v8LGDcuN015299@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Jon Steinhart wrote: > In particular, I have often thought that it would have been a better and > more consistent with the philosophy to have it implemented as > open("/dev/tcp") and so on. Granted that networking added some new > functionality that justified some of the system calls, just not > socket(). An old Unix manual referred to preferring "/dev/net" but that would've been a 9-track even parity tape drive under the nomenclature at the time... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."