Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 12:23:29 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But no, I don't actually like sockets all that much myself. They are hard > to use from scripts, and many more people are familiar with open/close and > read/write. >
I always thought it was really strange that I couldn't open() a AF_UNIX socket in order to write() to it (as a stream socket, of course.) It really makes a lot of things harder to do than it needs to be, and I would still like to see this generalization done.
That being said, if USB exported a filesystem I don't see any good reason why you shouldn't be able to advertise "socket" (S_ISSOCK()) objects and simply have them accept open("/dev/usb/blah/blah") instead of connect(AF_USB, ...) -- and still use send() and recv() where it is more appropriate to do so than using read() and write().
-hpa
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