Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 20:47:52 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: streams Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960119204530.9487C-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <9601191924.AA10655@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > <<On Fri, 19 Jan 1996 10:58:17 PST, "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> said: > > > Well, even though streams is a SysVism, its one of the things that > > others picked up (i.e. sunos). > > > Many drivers are written for streams...there was a linux project > > (I understand on hold) to move streams into linux... > > > It probably is advantageous to support streams... > > It is well-known to be disadvantageous to actually /use/ streams. Garrett, I originated this stream, asking Mike Smith if he knew of any streams-negativisms. Sounds like you do, would you care to amplify? I'm really curious, because they seem like (to me) an analog to stackable filesystems, for character io. Why not? > > -GAWollman > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. > Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people > MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: <URL:http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/>;
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