Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!dmr From: dmr@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Enlighten me on Streams. Message-ID: <8223@alice.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 04:36:30 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 23 Chris Torek writes, It is probably worth noting that those who have seen both the V8 Streams and the SysV STREAMS (different spellings, for some reason) claim that the two should be considered `second cousins' more than `parent and offspring'. For better or worse, STREAMS is the offspring of Streams; it's TLI that is the cuckoo's egg. Still, everyone is worried about water pollution these days. And though it is always jarring hear the name SHOUTED, there's probably some merit in the typographical distinction, for `stream' is a cruelly overloaded term even in local context: stdio docco refers to streams, and there's a stream I/O library in C++, plus the generic usage. Not to forget Ron Hardin's question: why call it a stream when the data flows both ways? To help with the original question: AT&T publishes a paperback `STREAMS Primer' as well as a guide to writing STREAM modules. Sorry not to have the select code, but it should be in the System V documentation list. Dennis Ritchie