Denis Voitenko wrote:
> Why was Linux designed so that the IP address
You mean IP addresses (plural), right? It's not as if there's only one
per host.
> and host info had to
> be stored in a bunch of files spread all over the system? Wouldn't
> it be simpler to keep it all in one place?
It wasn't.
Linux wasn't designed to have it's IP address etc stored in files,
period. It was designed to have them set by system utilities via
ioctl(SIOCSIFADDR) and the like. But then Linux is just a kernel, so
what else can it do?
Maybe you're talking about some particular Linux-based distribution?
If so, then which one? Probably not Slackware, which has much of it
hardwired into the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 script. As for RedHat, their
approach is orientated around being able to modify the data via a
'control panel' application; human-friendliness probably wasn't the
main consideration.
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