How to distinguish between STREAMS and non-STREAMS
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Fri Jan 18 08:30:51 AEST 1991
>I_LIST might be particularly fast since if you pass it a NULL pointer
>for the list, it just returns the number of modules on the stream,
Unless, of course, you're not running System V Release 4, in which case
it just returns an error....
I_LOOK also looks only at the stream head, although it does loop through
the table of modules to find the name.
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