From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dme@dme.org (David Edmondson) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:20:03 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Sockets and the true UNIX In-Reply-To: <20170921161040.GC25650@mcvoy.com> References: <20170921160112.ctpv4a52t5rjcqzg@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20170921161040.GC25650@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: 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.