The STREAMS non-inclusion in Linux

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Omer,

On Wednesday 20 Apr 2011 08:09:35 Omer Zak wrote:
> One of the things in which Linux diverges from Unix is Linux'
> non-implementation of STREAMS.
> 
> STREAMS can roughly be described as a way to organize drivers dealing
> with I/O.
> 
> Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STREAMS
> Linux Journal article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3086
> 
> 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.
> 
> Where can I find, if it exists at all, the definitive article which
> spells out the reasons for rejection of STREAMS?
> 

Well, I should note that Eric Raymond has written about STREAMS here:

* http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch07s03.html

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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