On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 08:53:53AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2020-12-25 10:21, Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> > Hearing this thread's perplexity, I long for the days of mknod.
> 
> But that wouldn't have helped with the network interfaces, because (in
> an un-Unixy way) their names have never been file names on the systems
> we're discussing now.

I wonder why.  Historical accident?  Or some deep technical reason?

-- hendrik

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> Ian
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