From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 17:50:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA15579 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:50:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from bacchus.eng.umd.edu (bacchus.eng.umd.edu [129.2.94.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA15557 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:50:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by bacchus.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id UAA26261; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 20:47:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.6.4) id UAA09963; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 20:47:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 20:47:52 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@espresso.eng.umd.edu To: "Garrett A. Wollman" cc: Marty Leisner , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: streams In-Reply-To: <9601191924.AA10655@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > < 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!: