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From: rock@cbnews.att.com (Y. Rock Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Streams for any file descriptor.
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.144842.7080@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 14 Feb 91 14:48:42 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.064348.1873@sgitokyo.nsg.sgi.com> <1007@sigmawa.oz>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1007@sigmawa.oz> geoffg@sigma21.oz.au writes:
>In the thread "Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem" Michael Kandall
>(kandall@sgitokyo.nsg.sgi.com) wrote:
>
>>In SVR4's enhanced STREAMS, I believe you can
>>push STREAMS onto arbitrary file descriptors.
>
>Can anyone confirm this? (Michael was not sure).  If it is true then all

No, you can only do Streams operations on a Streams device,
not on any device/file.


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