From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 04:51:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 04:51:45 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:48394 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 04:51:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3B023F77.D9FB50F2@idb.hist.no> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:51:03 +0200 From: Helge Hafting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre2 i686) X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Erdfelt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: <20010515145830.Y5599@sventech.com> <20010515154325.Z5599@sventech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > I had always made the assumption that sockets were created because you > couldn't easily map IPv4 semantics onto filesystems. It's unreasonable > to have a file for every possible IP address/port you can communicate > with. You could have "open("/ipv4/127.0.0.1/80") without having pre-allocated files and directories. The "ipfs" driver would simply accept any valid address without looking it up in any directory structure. Preallocation problems is no argument against a fs, in this case tradition is. Helge Hafting