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Re: Some questions about the translator that helps open the device


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: Some questions about the translator that helps open the device
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 02:02:52 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14

Hello,

Zheng Da, le Sat 02 Aug 2008 22:57:48 +0800, a écrit :
> I'm going to write a translator that helps other programs open the underlying
> device.

Mmm, there are already two: storeio (for disks) and streamio (for
character-based devices).

> So other programs can open the device through a filesystem location.
> The program can open the eth0 interface by openning the /dev/eth0, for 
> example.

Then I guess we could have a netio? (for packet-based devices)

Samuel




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