[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Erdfelt) wrote on 17.05.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, May 17, 2001, Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Erdfelt) wrote on 15.05.01 in > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > 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. > > > > Not at all. What is unreasonable is douing a "ls" on the directory in > > question. > > > > Big deal; make it mode d--x--x--x. Problem solved. > > > > And I'm pretty certain stuff like that *has* been done - wasn't there a > > ftp file system where you could "ls /mountpoint/ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux"? > > I think this is the difference between reasonable and unreasonable. What's unreasonable about it? > I'm sure it could be done, but should it? Well, the author of the Midnight Commander seems to think it should. MfG Kai - 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/
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- 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
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- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants H. Peter Anvin
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