Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 17 May 2001 22:40:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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johannes@erdfelt.com (Johannes Erdfelt) wrote on 15.05.01 in <20010515154325.Z5599@sventech.com>:
> 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"?
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