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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!think.com!paperboy.osf.org!loverso From: loverso@coltsfoot.osf.org (John Robert LoVerso) Subject: Re: STREAMS FOR 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Aug3.163903.10523@osf.org> Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System) Organization: OSF Research Institute, Cambridge MA References: <1992Jul30.210037.9265@ninja.zso.dec.com> <1992Jul31.002259.29940@gateway.novell.com> <1992Jul31.213144.27879@gateway.novell.com> <15cj4fINNs49@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 16:39:03 GMT Lines: 17 In an article, William F. Jolitz writes: |> There is work underway on a streams-like mechanism for 386BSD called |> CURRENTS. Instead of inventing yet-a-new-networking-framework, have you considered the x-kernel from the University of Arizona? It consists of a consistent, complete, and efficient framework for building network protocols, and suffers from none of the ugliness of STREAMS and TLI. It already runs on pseudo-BSD machines (SunOS) and over (and in) MACH. It has the standard slate of Internet protocols. Its efficiency originates from a protocol building block approach, as well as the use of shepard threads for walking messages through a protocol graph. There are a few of papers that have been published on the work, and the source code is freely distributable already (ftp to cs.arizona.edu). John