On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 05:03:13PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
# ls /dev/udp /dev/tcp ls: /dev/udp: No such file or directory ls: /dev/tcp: No such file or directory The chosen method of integration is practical non-sense. What happens if /dev/tcp is present and a character device?
That's more likely than it might sound. A proper way to implement the /dev/tcp/ feature (if you're going to implement it at all) would be to use FUSE, and it wouldn't surprise me if someone did that within the next 5 years.
-- Dwayne C. Litzenberger <dlitz@dlitz.net>