24 Mar
2017
24 Mar
'17
6:09 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 08:30:42AM -0700, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 3/24/17 12:37 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
That's my point. It landed in the shell because it was a desired
feature which was inexplicably never implemented where it "belongs."
Practicality landed it, not systems design.
khm
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.
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?