what the bash shell supports and what linux kernel supports are, after all, two seperate and not necessiarly related things.
bash runs on more than linux, after all. - erik On Wed Feb 1 18:50:13 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > c'mon. linux has consistently gone the other way on this issue. > > linux doesn't even have a device node for network interfaces. > > > > i don't know anything about the reasoning for this. efficiency? > > support for a static /dev? i don't know. > > > > The bash shell supports /dev/tcp.... kind of evil but you can make > connections and send strings via file redirection with it. > > Dave >
