Yes. However I think this is one of the things that can't have the right
semantics without kernel help. (Try to implement BSD-compatible SCM_CREDS
support on top of Linux's incompatible sendmsg() option without ever
losing data. It can't be done.)
Which is not to say we should bother with fake streams.
>> in question is already a tty. If done right this thin layer should
>> impose no performance penalty on code that doesn't use it, and should
>> not interfere with future improvements in the kernel.
>
>I question if you need it. The only non-protocol stack use of streams tends
>to be TLI. Alexey Kuznetsov has a user space TLI emulation layer for linux
>if someone wants to beat it back into shape
His code will hopefully be in libc 2.2.
zw
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