Re: STREAMS: interface versus implementation

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:49:49 +1200


On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 05:37:27AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> Most application programs use sockets and then ran socket over tli
> emulation over streams. A few used TLI. TLI was generally so
> painful that programmers treated it in the same way most people
> treat radioactive waste.
>
> The execptions are almost all non IP protocols.

Since almost everything is going IP (even Netware 5 has native IP)
there isn't much incentive then.

-cw

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