Francois-Xavier, Reminds me of Goodheart & Cox's statement in the Magic Garden:
"sockets are widely used for the implementation of TCP/IP on UNIX systems and have been ported to many implementations of UNIX System V. Although it is possible to implement other protocols within the sockets mechanism, it was not often done." p. 403. --brian On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Francois-Xavier Kowalski wrote: > Jean Philippe Longeray wrote: > > >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+ > > -- > Francois-Xavier "FiX" KOWALSKI /_ __ Tel: +33 (0)4 76 14 63 27 > OpenCall Business Unit -- OCBU / //_/ Fax: +33 (0)4 76 14 14 88 > Signalling Products / HP Telnet: 779-6327 > http://www.hp.com/go/opencall i n v e n t > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-streams mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams -- Brian F. G. Bidulock � The reasonable man adapts himself to the � [EMAIL PROTECTED] � world; the unreasonable one persists in � http://www.openss7.org/ � trying to adapt the world to himself. � � Therefore all progress depends on the � � unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw � _______________________________________________ Linux-streams mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams
