On 13.09.2012 18:14, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 13/09/12 16:48, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:>> Okay.> Didn't know that.
Everything in Linux can be access via "what looks like a file system".
eg: com ports, printer ports, usb, sound card etc.
Not quite: network (e.g. Ethernet) interfaces and SCSI/USB devices that
don't fit a known class have their own namespaces, and despite being
shown by e.g. lsof sockets don't have names at all (but information
about them might be exposed in /proc). I think that Plan-9 tries to
associate absolutely everything with a name, and working from memory the
same /might/ apply to curiosities like Helios.
And on Windows NT based systems everything is an object :) [Note: I'm
talking about the API exposed by the NT kernel here, not the WinAPI]
Regards,
Sven
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