Hi Omer, On Wednesday 20 Apr 2011 08:09:35 Omer Zak wrote: > One of the things in which Linux diverges from Unix is Linux' > non-implementation of STREAMS. > > STREAMS can roughly be described as a way to organize drivers dealing > with I/O. > > Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STREAMS > Linux Journal article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3086 > > None of them has details about the reasons, which led Linux Kernel > developers to reject STREAMS. STREAMS was only vaguely described as > poorly-designed and resource-consuming. > > Where can I find, if it exists at all, the definitive article which > spells out the reasons for rejection of STREAMS? >
Well, I should note that Eric Raymond has written about STREAMS here: * http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch07s03.html Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Parody of "The Fountainhead" - http://shlom.in/towtf Satan condemned Hitler for a million years of writing XSLT. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
