Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 1996 01:01:31 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 wishlist |
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From: inr-linux-kernel@ms2.inr.ac.ru (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru) Date: 19 Jun 1996 22:18:55 +0400
No. STREAMS much more powerful than current interface is.
You can emulate BSD socket interface (and ttys, and....) on the top of STREAMS (f.e. Solaris-2.*), but the reversed task is impossible. Only poor emulation, that is useless.
Well, there is STREAMS, and there is TLI. STREAMS is more general than BSD sockets, but you pay an extremely high performance penalty for this generality.
However, most System V programs don't use Streams directly, but rather they use TLI. And it's not very hard to emulate TLI on top of BSD sockets interface.
- Ted
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