[TUHS] Sockets and the true UNIX
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Sep 22 09:26:49 AEST 2017
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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