devices inode???

Jul 01, 2003 2 Replies
U

Hi, I am a newbie for Linux. I was reading a linux device drivers book. I was raeading about character devices and network interfaces.



It was told that unlike character/block devices which has a corresponding entry in a file system (/dev/tty1...), network interface isn't mapped easily to a node in a file system(they do not have a corresponding entry in the filesystem) eventhough an unique name(such as eth0) is given to them.!



Can anyone tell what is the reason behind that???



Thanks, Uday


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The reason that I can think of is that the file system operations are not relevant in the context of network interfaces hence they are not tereated as a file.

GG

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Hi, Sorry to drop in off topic, but your charset is set to iso885915. I think that should be iso8859-15, (Latin 9).

Dave Clarke
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