Re: STREAMS: interface versus implementation

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:47:00 -0400 (EDT)


Theodore Y. Ts'o writes:

> Does anyone know of any significant base of application code that
> really does use Streams instead of a BSD Sockets-type interface?

AFAIK it is used by boring business software. It's the stuff people
might need, not the stuff people have fun with. Software that runs
on gross systems like SCO OpenServer could be ported to Linux.

(so don't expect to find free source code)

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