David,
I don't understand Linus hates Streams... this is one of the most important improvement of SRV4.
I had a try, about 1 year ago... :-)
Larry McVoy kindly -- at the beginning -- explained me the benefits of a BSD-like kernel over a STREAMS-based one. In brief: Linux kernel gurus / maintainer have chosen the speed of BSD over the great deal of flexibility of STREAMS. I quite agree with them about the bunch of bloat added to Ritchie's "streams" concept: same category of overhead as the one required to use SysV IPC's.
I guess that only "protocol guys" can feel the benefit of real flexibility: Want to try INAP/TCAP/GDI/TCP/IP/ATM in BSD-mode? ;-)
A+
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