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To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: streams 
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From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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Well, even though streams is a SysVism, its one of the things that
others picked up (i.e. sunos).

Many drivers are written for streams...there was a linux project
(I understand on hold) to move streams into linux...

It probably is advantageous to support streams...


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marty
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