On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 01:23:33PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Wednesday 20 Apr 2011 08:32:29 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> > My guess is that streams is based on AT&T patents and was never > > reverse engineered. > > > > That's not true. STREAMS was part of the Unix98 standard (now mostly > superseded by the Linux Standard Base), and there was a STREAMS patch for it > for the Linux kernel. However, AFAIR Linus was unwilling to apply it because > he claimed it made everything else slower. "STREAMS was required for conformance with the Single UNIX Specification versions 1 (UNIX 95) and 2 (UNIX 98), but as a result of the refusal of the BSD and Linux flavors of UNIX to provide STREAMS, was marked as optional for POSIX compliance by the Austin Group in version 3 (UNIX 03)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STREAMS -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
