The STREAMS non-inclusion in Linux

[Oron Peled]

On Wednesday, 20 בApril 2011 08:09:35 Omer Zak wrote:
> One of the things in which Linux diverges from Unix is Linux'
> non-implementation of STREAMS.
> ....
> None of them has details about the reasons, which led Linux Kernel
> developers to reject STREAMS.  STREAMS was only vaguely described as
> poorly-designed and resource-consuming.

From Alan Cox:
  http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9806.3/0997.html

> Where can I find, if it exists at all, the definitive article which
> spells out the reasons for rejection of STREAMS?

IIRC, Linus once said STREAMS would enter the kernel over his dead body
but I cannot find a reference to that now.


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