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Auteur: Hendrik Boom
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Vdev [ was Re: if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names]
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 08:53:53AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2020-12-25 10:21, Steve Litt wrote:
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> > 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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