Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: number of eth0 device | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:34:14 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:23 +0200, Mathieu Segaud wrote: > well, the way NIC's behave kind of forbids this > taken from Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition, page 497 > "The normal file operations (read, write, and so on) do not make sense > when applied to network interfaces, so it is not possible to apply the > Unix ''everything is a file'' approach to them" >
Ditto sound cards, which is why ALSA abandoned the OSS "everything is a file" paradigm for sound cards. Read/write etc. don't take into account the inherent realtime constraints in streaming audio to/from a device.
Lee
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