From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 22:55:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA17065 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:55:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA17060 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA28354; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:29:32 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601160659.RAA28354@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: streams To: deasey@server1.netpath.net (Geoffrey Deasey) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:29:32 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Geoffrey Deasey" at Jan 12, 96 05:50:01 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Geoffrey Deasey stands accused of saying: > > I asked W Richard Stevens why some of the programs in his book > Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment won't compile and he > said that Linux does not have streams. I was not sure what he meant > by that, so does FreeBSD have streams in the same sence of the word ? No, 'streams' is a SysV thing. You'll notice that he goes to considerable lengths to explain the differences between BSD and SysV-style operating systems, and to point out that only the latter has 'streams'. > How about threads, :) There's a pile of threading stuff coming to FreeBSD RSN. > Jeff -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[