Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!hc!lanl!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 14 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.