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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
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Subject: Re: sockets vs. STREAMS, also intermachine networking on SV
Keywords: I'm even more confused now...
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Date: 10 Feb 89 18:42:55 GMT
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In article <506@gonzo.UUCP> daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:

>The main reason you want a
>stream pipe is so you can use poll() in your server, which is supposed
>to pay attention to a number of connected clients. Now SVR3 has no
>generically supported method for doing this as far as I can tell. 

I don't understand your question. The poll() system call in SVR3 works
like BSD's select() except that you can only apply it to STREAMS
file descriptors. A file descriptor obtained by opening a (full
duplex) connection through /dev/spx IS a STREAMS file descriptor.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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