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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!newsun!gateway.novell.com!terry From: terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: STREAMS FOR 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Aug3.173537.27277@gateway.novell.com> Sender: news@gateway.novell.com (NetNews) Nntp-Posting-Host: thisbe.eng.sandy.novell.com Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT References: <1992Jul31.213144.27879@gateway.novell.com> <15cj4fINNs49@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Aug3.163903.10523@osf.org> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 17:35:37 GMT In article <1992Aug3.163903.10523@osf.org> loverso@coltsfoot.osf.org (John Robert LoVerso) writes: >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. I wasn't expecting a slew of "streams alternatives" from my starting this thread... actually, I was hoping for an update on the status of the "BSTREAMS" project. I really would prefer a "real" streams environment, not the least of reasons being that I have tens of thousands of lines of streams code and many, many DLPI drivers. Has the "BSTREAMS" project been dropped or ground to a halt? Is it time for someone else to step in and write a streams package? Is this the end for the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder? (Just kidding on this last question, folks... the other two are serious). Terry Lambert terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Disclaimer: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.