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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help with select
Message-ID: <7575@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 28 Mar 88 14:22:03 GMT
References: <12404@brl-adm.ARPA> <2958@gryphon.CTS.COM> <7513@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3025@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3025@gryphon.CTS.COM> sarima@gryphon.CTS.COM (Stan Friesen) writes:
>... are PIPEs being converted to STREAMS?

As of Release 3.0, ordinary pipes were still ripped-off block-I/O inodes.
Hidden away somewhere were "stream pipes", but you had to make a special
effort to get them.  I'm pretty sure that a forthcoming release will have
the whole character I/O subsystem converted to STREAMS, but I don't know
if AT&T plans to convert to (full-duplex) stream pipes.  They certainly
ought to; that is one of the most effective tools for user-mode juggling
of streams.