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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: BSD:sockets::SVID:(what?)
Message-ID: <8198@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 30 Jun 88 20:22:52 GMT
References: <5968@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <2820@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2820@ttidca.TTI.COM> mb@ttidca.tti.com (Michael Bloom) writes:
>Portions of "the big question are": Will IP/UDP/TCP be rewritten as
>streams modules? What about the UNIX domain? 

I thought it had been, by Wollongong over a year ago.

>Will streams itself be different in 5.4? Sun has documented that they
>had to "extend" streams just to be able to provide a streams terminal
>driver that could handle the bsd functionality not present in system V
>tty drivers.

The only thing I can think of that might need an extension would be
adding back the delimiter messages (M_DELIM) that Dennis originally had
in his prototype streams implementation.  I have been told that these
have been added to STREAMS in whatever the latest SVR3 release is.