Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> I had always made the assumption that sockets were created because you
> couldn't easily map IPv4 semantics onto filesystems. It's unreasonable
> to have a file for every possible IP address/port you can communicate
> with.
You could have "open("/ipv4/127.0.0.1/80") without having pre-allocated
files and directories. The "ipfs" driver would simply
accept any valid address without looking it up in any directory
structure.
Preallocation problems is no argument against a fs, in this
case tradition is.
Helge Hafting
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