Re: 2.2.0 wishlist

really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru (inr-linux-kernel@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
19 Jun 1996 22:18:55 +0400


Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.NET) wrote:

: > * STREAM support

: I thought this could be done in user-land, and didnt have to have kernel
: space support. (I seem to remember a shared lib implementation of this).

No. STREAMS much more powerful than current interface is.

You can emulate BSD socket interface (and ttys, and....) on the top of
STREAMS (f.e. Solaris-2.*), but the reversed task is impossible.
Only poor emulation, that is useless.

Alexey Kuznetsov.