Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!hcr!larry
From: larry@hcr.UUCP (Larry Philps)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: how to create stream pipe (S5R3) ?
Keywords: stream, pipe
Message-ID: <4600@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 89 15:12:15 GMT
References: <244@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: larry@zeus.UUCP (Larry Philps)
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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In article <244@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> stevens@hsi.UUCP writes:
>I'm trying to figure out how to create a "stream pipe" with System 5,
>Release 3.2 (386 version).  The streamio(7) man page says the only
>way to pass a file descriptor is using these, but I can't find
>any reference as to how a stream pipe is created.  In Steve
>Bellovin's "Session TTY Manager" paper from the San Francisco
>Usenix, he describes the "strange" way they're created under
>Research Unix, but I can't find any mention of /dev/spx in my
>System 5 manuals.
>
>	Richard Stevens
>	Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
>	   stevens@hsi.com
>           ... { uunet | yale } ! hsi ! stevens

Call the function "spipe" exactly as you would call "pipe" and then link
your program against the -lns library.
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Larry Philps                             HCR Corporation
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