24 Mar
2017
24 Mar
'17
4:30 p.m.
On 3/24/17 12:37 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 07:15:13AM +0000, shawn wilson
wrote:
Who knows? At the time I put that into bash (around 20 years ago, and Korn
before me), nobody had it in the kernel, and there weren't any signs of
anyone doing so.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
Everything is still a file.
Except for your network, of course -- that might have a file interface
available... provided by your shell. Because of course /dev/tcp should
be a shell feature. Why would anyone put that in the kernel?