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Re: Does Linux support STREAMS



Hi,

> Does Linux supports STREAMS?

	The short answer is no. Streams are basically a svr4 heritage, and
linux, at least in the default config, doesn't have streams. Although I do
remember that somewhere on the net there was a kernel add-on or a library
that emulated stream pipes on top of some other thing (named/unnamed pipes
or unix domain sockets).
	I needed this thingie a while ago when I was trying to port a
hp-ux thing that used stream pipes to linux. I also remember that I had
posted a query about this to the linux-kernel mailing list, and the
response I got was that they don't support stream pipes is because stream
pipes suck, and that you can always do the same thing using unix domain
sockets (socketpair).

	Regards,
	Kedar.
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