10 Oct
2010
10 Oct
'10
22:11
[Sorry for jumping in late but I just returned from holiday in
beautiful Provence]
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:50:37 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer
Unix SVR4.2 has a concept of stream drivers. These were modules that you could stack to process data (e.g. TCP) in a pipeline.
And that was utter nonsense! Very nice in theory but a nightmare in reality. Streams were invented for serail lines and there the concept of stackable modules made sense. But extending that idea toTCP/IP was a grave mistake. Guess why it was never really implemented in Linux? Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-programming+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-programming+help@opensuse.org