Re: What happened to network devices?
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> > > > So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using
> > > > "eth0" or "/dev/eth0" before, so I didn't check if such a file
> > > > existed. A network interface is a device which I expect to be
> > > > represented under /dev.
> > >
> > > Not so, at least on Linux.
>
> On 03.06.09 10:51, lee wrote:
> > Well, all devices are supposed to be available under /dev.
>
> Who told you that? I have never heard of this and I work with linux since
> 1997...
I've read that a long time ago. Who told you otherwise?
> > > For example, you cannot use open(2) or rename(2) on eth0.
> >
> > It wouldn't make much sense if you could, would it?
>
> That's just it. There's no reason to work with them as with files, so
> there's no reason to have them on filesystem.
They are devices, and you need to be able to specify them. There's no
reason not to represent them.
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