Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > I had always made the assumption that sockets were created because you > couldn't easily map IPv4 semantics onto filesystems. It's unreasonable > to have a file for every possible IP address/port you can communicate > with. You could have "open("/ipv4/127.0.0.1/80") without having pre-allocated files and directories. The "ipfs" driver would simply accept any valid address without looking it up in any directory structure. Preallocation problems is no argument against a fs, in this case tradition is. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Helge Hafting
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants James Simmons
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Chip Salzenberg
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- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Linus Torvalds
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Johannes Erdfelt
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Linus Torvalds
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants H. Peter Anvin
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Johannes Erdfelt
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Chip Salzenberg
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Helge Hafting
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Kai Henningsen
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Johannes Erdfelt
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Kai Henningsen
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Pavel Machek
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Johannes Erdfelt
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Pavel Machek
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants James Simmons
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants H. Peter Anvin
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants James Simmons
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Nicolas Pitre