From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 10:34:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA20102 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk (jraynard.demon.co.uk [158.152.42.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA20007 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:32:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA01452; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 16:56:21 GMT Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 16:56:21 GMT Message-Id: <199606251656.QAA01452@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: sterrett@cts.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: <31CF263D.44EA@cts.com> (message from Tony Sterrett on Mon, 24 Jun 1996 16:35:25 -0700) Subject: Re: STREAMS Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I know this question is in bad taste but, is their anybody > working on SYS V like STREAMS in the BSD world. Well, it's on the wishlist, although at a fairly low priority. I have actually heard of a company doing an in-house FreeBSD emulation of streams, in user-land, so that's certainly possible. (No, I don't know if they're prepared to make it available). A "real" SVR4-style kernel implementation would be a lot of work, though. > I'm a BSD programmer, however I like the STREAMS model. I've never used it myself, but I can see it having some advantages (as well as some disadvantages, which we'll no doubt soon hear about 8-) -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk