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Date:      Sat, 13 Jan 1996 23:45:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Geoffrey Deasey <deasey@server1.netpath.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: streams
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.960113234335.7861B-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960112174704.3462A-100000@server1.netpath.net>

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On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Geoffrey Deasey wrote:

> 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 ?

Nope, but I thought that there was a streams implementation available 
with at least one version of Linux.  I don't run Linux, I wouldn't know 
which one.

> 
> How about threads, :)

Not yet, at least not kernel threads, but there might be a user threads 
library available in not too very long, folks are working on it.

> 
> --Thanks  
> 
>    Jeff
> 
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