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From: lm@arizona.edu (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SVR3.0 vs BSD4.3
Message-ID: <4471@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 88 17:09:09 GMT
References: <12414@brl-adm.ARPA> <4361@megaron.arizona.edu> <7499@brl-smoke.ARPA> <20768@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <7511@brl-smoke.ARPA> <4441@megaron.arizona.edu> <10179@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: lm@megaron.arizona.edu.UUCP (Larry McVoy)
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson
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In article <10179@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell@hector (Eduardo Krell) writes:
>In article <4441@megaron.arizona.edu> I said:
>
>>(It should be obvious but I'll drive it home:  the streams code that I've
>>seen copies the data out of the upper level buffer and then into the 
>
>Well, now. The streams modules that I've seen so far avoid copying data
>as much as possible. Passing a message up or downstream is often
>accomplished by just passing pointers to the data.

Several people have pointed this out to me.  It seems that I have been 
exposed to some fairly poorly written streams code and it is that code,
not streams, that is brain-damaged.
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Larry McVoy	lm@arizona.edu or ...!{uwvax,sun}!arizona.edu!lm