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Re: Some questions about the translator that helps open the device
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olafBuddenhagen |
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Re: Some questions about the translator that helps open the device |
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Fri, 8 Aug 2008 01:03:38 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 06:23:04PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 17:27:53 +0200, a écrit :
> > The point is rather that for network devices, the *standard* IO
> > operations make no sense.
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> Well, yes they do, see tap devices: read/write packets.
No idea about tap.
I don't understand: How does one read/write variable-sized packets with
an interface that only supports (seekable) byte streams?
-antrik-
Re: Some questions about the translator that helps open the device, olafBuddenhagen, 2008/08/06