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

[Samuel Thibault]

olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 17:27:53 +0200, a écrit :
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:44:44AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Michael Casadevall, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 00:22:55 -0400, a écrit :
> 
> > Well, I guess that if linux didn't add eth0 to /dev, that must be
> > because there is more to it than just read/write (like MAC address
> > configuration etc).
> 
> Well, if it was only *additional* operations that are required, there
> would be no problem -- that's what ioctl()s are used for. The point is
> rather that for network devices, the *standard* IO operations make no
> sense.

Well, yes they do, see tap devices: read/write packets.

Samuel