Re: STREAMS: interface versus implementation

Matthew G. Marsh (mgm@paktronix.com)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:06:55 -0500 (CDT)


On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 06:45:14 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Matthew G. Marsh" <mgm@paktronix.com>
>
> OK. I have been following this wondering if anyone remembers the thread
> earlier in the spring/summer about the port of Novell Netware to Linux by
> Caldera. Netware uses streams and unfortunately one of the engineers from
> Caldera snitted about streams support in the kernel. Twas a bad spree.
>
> Again, though --- was that the low-level STREAMS interface, or the
> higher-level TLI interface?

It was the entire LiS implementation. I just looked through the patch and
it seems the putpmsg, getpmsg, poll syscalls are defined along with a
whole pile of assembly code. I do not know the extant of the patching only
that it was written specifically for 2.0.34 (and later 2.0.35). If I had
to guess bearing on the way Netware works I would say they implemented
both low-level STREAMS and TLI.

>
> - Ted
>

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