On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 19:38:49 -0500
Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

>
> >On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:44:30 +0000
> >g4sra via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> >In my young years I used to tinker with linux distros on floppy
> >disks and there still where eth0, eth1 and so on but no udev,
> >so where did the names came from?
>
> Ya know, mknod wasn't so bad. The moment inotify was invented, I could
> have created software to create devices with mknod.

Hi,
network interfaces cannot be found in /dev so I would be surprised
if they could be created with mknod.

Ciao,
Tito


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