Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:30:28 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: STREAMS: interface versus implementation |
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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:06:55 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew G. Marsh" <mgm@paktronix.com>
It was the entire LiS implementation. I just looked through the patch and it seems the putpmsg, getpmsg, poll syscalls are defined along with a whole pile of assembly code. I do not know the extant of the patching only that it was written specifically for 2.0.34 (and later 2.0.35). If I had to guess bearing on the way Netware works I would say they implemented both low-level STREAMS and TLI.
If I'm not mistaken, the whole LiS implementation requires kernel patches, and installation of the STREAMS networking layer in the kernel. That's already been ruled out of court due to the performance impacts of STREAMS model. (See the kernel FAQ, or ask Davem how badly Linux trounces the Solaris networking layer these days. :-)
- Ted
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