[ih] History of Naming on The Internet - is it still relevant?

[John Levine]

It appears that Craig Partridge via Internet-history <craig at tereschau.net> said:
>Was the socket API too low level -- sure and many folks have written
>wrappers on top of it.  But it was less klunky than the filesystem API.

On a more modern Unixish system I'd think you could encode most of
that stuff into the filename, e.g.

/dev/tcp/10.11.22.33/443

or

/dev/tcp/listen/0.0.0.0/17

It's like /dev/tty, some stuff still needs ioctls() but for a lot of
common cases that's enough that a program can read or write it like a
file and it'll work.

R"s,
John