> However, I'm not aware of any way that an app can tell what sort of > device a > driver refers to! Whatever... The only way to do this is the path of the device, e.g. we could have a special case for /dev/socket, or /dev/net/socket, just don't matter too much. We could also move all ethernet drivers to /dev/net/ethernet for that matter :-) Adios... Axel.