Streams for any file descriptor.

[Y. Rock Lee]

In article <1007 at sigmawa.oz> geoffg at sigma21.oz.au writes:
>In the thread "Ideas for changes to Unix filesystem" Michael Kandall
>(kandall at sgitokyo.nsg.sgi.com) wrote:
>
>>In SVR4's enhanced STREAMS, I believe you can
>>push STREAMS onto arbitrary file descriptors.
>
>Can anyone confirm this? (Michael was not sure).  If it is true then all

No, you can only do Streams operations on a Streams device,
not on any device/file.


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