25 Mar
2017
25 Mar
'17
12:55 a.m.
On 2017 Mar 24, 07:23, shawn wilson wrote:
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 01:15 Random832
<random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, because "lspci" was not hard enough to type.
Also, in Unix resources have a name when the kernel has a driver to be
able to know about those resources. But "lspci" can list also hardware
for which the kernel knows no driver (not a typical need in "pure UNIX"
running on a PDP-11 or PDP-8, I guess).
"lspci" is akin to "fdisk -l", for when you need to know what is
laying
under the running kernel, at a level lower than the kernel abstractions
for the hardware which it knows about (i.e, hardware for which it has
a driver).
Which brings up a question I have: why didn't UNIX implement ethernet
network interfaces as file names in the filesystem? Was that "novelty" a
BDS development straying away from AT&T UNIX?
--
Josh Good
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017, at 21:03, ron minnich
wrote:
In bash -
which read -a foo; do echo <(cmd ${foo[0]});
done #...? :) In Unix, resources have names. They are visible
in a name space,
organized
into directories. The names can be enumerated by opening and reading a
directory. Information about them can be determined with stat. Their
contents can be read by open and read. They can be changed with open and
write.
And if each resource has a directory (possibly organized in a
multiple-level hierarchy) containing several files that describe
attributes of that resource, what are you to do when you want to print a
report listing a summary of some information about those resources, one
per line?