22 Sep
2017
22 Sep
'17
5:26 a.m.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Jon Steinhart wrote:
In particular, I have often thought that it would have
been a better and
more consistent with the philosophy to have it implemented as
open("/dev/tcp") and so on. Granted that networking added some new
functionality that justified some of the system calls, just not
socket().
An old Unix manual referred to preferring "/dev/net" but that would've
been a 9-track even parity tape drive under the nomenclature at the
time...
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."