From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 19 16:43:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA27458 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:43:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA27445 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id RAA04305; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 17:42:37 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199706192342.RAA04305@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Streams and IPC Support. To: KwPr@aol.com Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 17:42:27 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <970619014454_-1462928457@emout08.mail.aol.com> from "KwPr@aol.com" at Jun 19, 97 01:45:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Romero asked: > I am curious ... Does Free BSD have Streams and IPC support > similar to that of ATT System 5 ? If so, how does one obtain > the relevant software. Yes and no. Yes, it has the System 5 IPC mechanisms, and no it does not have STREAMS. You can configure your kernel to support the IPC mechanisms using configuration options found in the "LINT" sample configuration file. See the FreeBSD Handbook for more infomation on how to configure a kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook37.html#39 -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com