Re: STREAMS: interface versus implementation

Zack Weinberg (zack@rabi.columbia.edu)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:15:15 -0400

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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 02:10:05 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
>>
>> > Please keep getpmsg/putmsg out of the generic glibc. Thats important becau
>se
>> > otherwise glibc will break the syscall versions and calderas stuff
>>
>> No. The symbols coming from glibc would be shadowed by the symbols in
>> other libraries.
>
>Exactly
>
>getmsg and putmsg now are syscalls. Zach proposes user space emulation.
>If the glibc uses the user space stuff it wont be able to make the syscall
>version

Actually I was proposing kernel space emulation a la iBCS.

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