Re: What do you think of STREAMS?

Dean Gaudet (dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org)
Mon, 12 May 1997 18:22:46 -0700 (PDT)

Ditto for the Sybase releases on IRIX that required STREAMS. I found it
painful to have to install the svr4net package just to get the Sybase
clients to run. The same svr4net package that various SGI tech support
folk are known to have repeatedly say "do not use this unless you really
really have to". Sybase has found the light though and moved back to
sockets.

Dean

On Mon, 12 May 1997, Larry McVoy wrote:

> : The STREAMS implementation that exists for Linux
> : is much like the IRIX one Larry, it's bolted "on top" of the fast
> : stuff so only the bozo's using STREAMS even go through those code
> : paths. And you can config the sucker completely out, which is what
> : most people will do anyways.
>
> We at SGI have sadly learned that the above is not true. STREAMS lets
> you do things like push on your own line discipline. Only a an idiot
> would do that you say? Well, yes, but framemaker seems to be such an
> idiot.
>
> So on SGI's, if you want to run Frame, you must run STREAMS.
>
> If you choose to make STREAMS a part of Linux, please disable any
> interfaces that allow applications to use it directly via push/pop.
> Or we'll all get stuck with it.
>
> --lm
>