Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 May 1998 20:08:55 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: getmsg & putmsg |
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On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 10:24:41PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > You seem to think they must be in the kernel, nothing stops you from > doing a userland implementation of SysV streams. Everyone first says, > "Put this in the kernel.", very few people ask "Can we do this in > userspace?".
I saying this in the knowledge I know almost nothing of STREAMS in practice:
So - can a full working implementation of STREAMS be done is userspace?
I think 'good enough' can be done, but not a 'full' implementation, nor something robust enough to prevent the possibility of one application clobbering another. (I think you might also require root privs. or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE to make it work too.... not sure).
> The one advantage of Linux is that we can filter what goes into the > kernel on technical merit alone, not what marketing or whatever > wants.
The 'one advantage' - there is only one advantage?
-Chris
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