From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 05:05:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 05:05:02 -0400 Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]:63755 "EHLO mailout03.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 19 May 2001 05:04:45 -0400 Date: 19 May 2001 10:18:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <81Byw9IHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <20010517184636.L32405@sventech.com> Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh6 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <811ooI$Hw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <20010515154325.Z5599@sventech.com> <811ooI$Hw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <20010517184636.L32405@sventech.com> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org johannes@erdfelt.com (Johannes Erdfelt) wrote on 17.05.01 in <20010517184636.L32405@sventech.com>: > On Thu, May 17, 2001, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > johannes@erdfelt.com (Johannes Erdfelt) wrote on 15.05.01 in > > <20010515154325.Z5599@sventech.com>: > > > > > 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. > > > > Not at all. What is unreasonable is douing a "ls" on the directory in > > question. > > > > Big deal; make it mode d--x--x--x. Problem solved. > > > > And I'm pretty certain stuff like that *has* been done - wasn't there a > > ftp file system where you could "ls /mountpoint/ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux"? > > I think this is the difference between reasonable and unreasonable. What's unreasonable about it? > I'm sure it could be done, but should it? Well, the author of the Midnight Commander seems to think it should. MfG Kai