From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 09:24:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA26716 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:24:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA26650 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:24:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from chemserv.umd.edu (chemserv.umd.edu [129.2.64.40]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id IAA28031 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:58:59 -0800 Received: from cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (cappuccino.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.14]) by chemserv.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id LAA00447; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:57:47 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by cappuccino.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.6.4) id LAA03435; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:57:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:57:43 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu To: Michael Smith cc: Geoffrey Deasey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: streams In-Reply-To: <199601160659.RAA28354@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > 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'. Michael, I keep on thinking that streams is one of the SYSVisms that make some kind of sense. If you disagree (especially if you disagree) I'd like to hear your opinion on that. ============================================================================ 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!: