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Some GOSIP (remember that?) implementations on some Unicies did have files for network connections, but it was very much in the minority. Since BSD was the home
by tankenmate 1y ago
Some GOSIP (remember that?) implementations on some Unicies did have files for network connections, but it was very much in the minority. Since BSD was the home of the first widely usable socket() implementations for TCP/IP it became the norm; sockets are a file, but just not linked to any filesystem and control is connect()/accept() and the networking equivalent (setsockopt()) of the Unix system call dumping ground; ioctl().
- pjmlp 1y agoI don't remember any of the ones I used having it, or then I missed it. Kind of, sockets don't do seek().
- fuzztester 1y agoPsst - don't tell().
- tankenmate 1y agoNot all devices support seek either, they're still files; ENOSYS