Streams under IRIX?

[dale chayes]

In article <93971 at sgi.sgi.com>, vjs at rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
> 
> > > for information on communicating across the network from within a program.
> > ...
> > You should also look at the Streams mechanism if you are starting from
> > scratch, it might be appropriate to use the "modern" methods.
> 
> 
> Well, STREAMS won't help much with Silicon Graphics TCP/IP since IRIX is
> currently and in the forthcoming release firmly socketed.
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	I guess that I don't understand Vern's comment about not
helping much under IRIX. What I said was "...have a look at this other
mechanism too, as it MIGHT be appropriate....".  I also put modern in
quotes (to imply that I'm not convinced either.)

	The reason I mentioned Streams at all was because, while checking
through my SGI manuals, I FOUND THE STREAMS Primer and STREAMS
Programmer's Guide.  Trivial further investigation produces man pages
for clone() and streamio(7) on my system.  From this (admittedly
weak) evidence, I _assume_ that Streams is supported.

	I had a look at the eoe2 tape to see if there was a optional
module that has to be installed, but found nothing that looked
remotely like streams.

	So, is Streams there or not? (in 3.3xx)

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