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[tae] sockets vs. fds

Dave CROCKER <dhc2@dcrocker.net> Fri, 05 December 2008 15:40 UTC

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Melinda Shore wrote:
> Not to go too far afield, but I think there's consensus
> among us old Unix folk that the mistake that CSRG made
> wasn't in the use of addresses but in having "sockets"
> instead of using file descriptors.  This was actually
> fixed in SysVRSomethingOrOther with the introduction of
> a network pseudo-filesystem (open("/net/192.168.1.1", ... )
> with ioctls but never got traction.


It's possible that this represents insight worth sharing broadly, so I'm copying 
the list.

It isn't immediately obvious to me why file descriptors would have had a major 
impact, so can you elaborate?

Thanks.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
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