I should clarify perhaps. I was proposing kernel space emulation of
the streams primitives, via a loadable module. They'd either map to
existing socket or terminal primitives, or be no-ops. (The LiS people
have volunteered to write this.)
I may have confused you by saying that glibc would implement TLI over
sockets. That's entirely separate.
The functions that look like they need some kernel help are:
getpmsg putpmsg isastream fattach fdetach (latter three map to ioctls)
open("/dev/foo") for foo = tcp, udp, maybe arp, icmp, ip, eth
ioctl(fd, I_xyz, data) for various I_xyz ioctls. (Many of these just
need to do nothing and return 0 instead of failing with -ENOSYS.)
zw
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