Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants]

Alexander Viro
2001-05-20T00:01:52Z

On Sat, 19 May 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:

> I thought about how to do networking without sockets, and it seems to
> me like this kind of modify syscall is needed, because network sockets
> connect to *two* different places (one local address and one
> remote). Sockets are really nasty :-(.

Pavel, take a look at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/3/ip