Network Character Device (NCD)?

[Ben Scott]

On 7/10/07, VirginSnow at vfemail.net <VirginSnow at vfemail.net> wrote:
> Is there anything analogous for character devices?

  netcat and some named sockets could sorta do this, but you wouldn't
get the ioctl stuff.

  Google seems to have some promising results:

  http://www.google.com/search?q=network%20character%20device

> ... reads/writes/ioctls to /dev/ncd*, wrap them up in UDP ...

  TCP would be better for a character device, I would think, since
character devices and TCP are both basically just a stream of bytes.
No?

-- Ben