Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Helge Hafting
2001-05-16T08:51:55Z

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