From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 11:54:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA28506 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:54:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crash.cts.com (root@crash.cts.com [192.188.72.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA28495 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:54:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by crash.cts.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #5) id m0uYdFr-0000icC; Tue, 25 Jun 96 11:54 PDT Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:54:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Tony Sterrett To: James Raynard cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: STREAMS In-Reply-To: <199606251656.QAA01452@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, James Raynard wrote: > > 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. Well a task is half done once it is begun. > > > 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 >