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From: dme@dme.org (David Edmondson)
Subject: [TUHS] Sockets and the true UNIX
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:20:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y3p8hvm4.fsf@dme.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170921161040.GC25650@mcvoy.com>

On Thursday, 2017-09-21 at 09:10:40 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:

> I'm pretty sure the two main System V based TCP/IP stacks were STREAMS
> based: the Lachman one (which I ported to the ETA-10 and to SCO Unix)
> and the Mentat one that was done for Sun.  The socket API was sort of
> bolted on top of the STREAMS stuff, you could get to the STREAMS stuff
> directly (I think, it's been a long time).

You could pop the socket module to get to the stream underneath, but
lots of streams functionality still works with it present.

dme.
-- 
Modern people tend to dance.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-21 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-21 16:01 Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-21 16:07 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-21 16:10 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-21 16:20   ` David Edmondson [this message]
2017-09-21 16:25   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-21 16:27     ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-21 16:37     ` [TUHS] Sockets and the true UNIX [ actually carping about streams ] Jon Steinhart
2017-09-21 18:26   ` [TUHS] Sockets and the true UNIX Chet Ramey
2017-09-21 16:13 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-21 16:17   ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-21 20:36     ` Chris Torek
2017-09-21 18:56   ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-21 19:13     ` Steve Simon
2017-09-21 19:31       ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-21 20:15         ` ron minnich
2017-09-21 20:34           ` Clem Cole
2017-09-21 23:26   ` Dave Horsfall
     [not found] <mailman.1105.1506026200.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-09-22 10:36 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-09-22 14:32   ` Clem Cole
2017-09-22 14:42     ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-22 14:47       ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-22 14:52         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-09-22 14:49       ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-22 14:57         ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-22 18:14           ` Chris Torek
2017-09-22 18:43             ` Clem Cole
2017-09-22 19:08             ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-22 20:57               ` Chris Torek
2017-09-24 18:04                 ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-22 18:00   ` Chris Torek
2017-09-25 17:57 Norman Wilson
2017-09-25 18:55 ` Clem Cole

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