Sockets are created/opened by applications, and don't really follow the whole mknod / dev paradigm. This is for both Unix and TCP sockets. On 10/23/07, Craig White wrote: > nothing in the man page to suggest it but you are much more > knowledgeable about this stuff than I because I just assumed that a > socket is a mknod file somewhere with permissions set to allow specific > users/demons to pass data. -- Thanks, Dan Lund "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss