Re: STREAMS: interface versus implementation
Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:32:08 -0400 (EDT)
Larry McVoy writes:
>> 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?
>
> "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
>> 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.
>
> This doesn't answer the question. Please list by name the software
> applications (not counting drivers) which use STREAMS. Thanks.
You trimmed "(so don't expect to find free source code)", which was
rather important. I have heard Sybase requires STREAMS though.
Gee, maybe that's why Sybase still hasn't been ported to Linux.
Every other database vendor did, except Microsoft and (maybe) IBM.
Anyway, it's not as if someone wants a STREAMS TCP/IP stack. Relax.
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