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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SVR4 (was: Re: at files and permissions)
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Date: 7 Jul 89 13:48:23 GMT
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In article <4896@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Does anyone here really know what sort of crud V.4 (not V.3) is going to
>have in it? Streams *and* sockets, or so I hear...

AT&T presented an overview of SVR4 at a BOF session at the Baltimore USENIX.
Therefore lots of people presumably now know what SVR4 will contain and more
or less how it's implemented.

Sockets are emulated; STREAMS is the basic kernel mechanism.