Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: getmsg & putmsg | Date | Thu, 14 May 1998 07:59:36 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr> said: > On Wed, 13 May 1998, David S. Miller wrote: > > From: abel@bfr.co.il (Alexander L. Belikoff)
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> > The question above is not intended to start yet another holy "Linux > > vs STREAMS" war. Instead, if you think you have a reasonable > > answer, you may just mail it to me.
> > The problem is that everyone would "just config out streams" until > > some major vendor wrote a major application which depended upon it. > > Then people would start to compile it in by default, and this is a > > landslide effect. Then people would start asking why the default > > configuration of the kernel is so slow, and we'd start trying to make > > our streams implementation more efficient, ad nauseum...
> Nothing but paranoia, IMNSHO. > I did think that an O/S is a thing that run application programs. If > applications want STREAMS, then we must provide them STREAMS.
Great! You do that, we'll watch how it goes. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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