using STREAMS for IPC

[Tom Quan]

>From reading about STREAMS (I'm new to the "modern" UNIX programming
facilities), it's quite clear that it's a beautiful facility for
setting up a communications channel between processes on different
machines.  However, I've also read a reference that says STREAMS can be
used for inter-process communication.  Presumably, this means allowing
two processes on the same machine talk efficiently.

How can STREAMS be set up for IPC?  From reading AT&T's System V
documentation on STREAMS, I've seen no instructions on this.
Hopefully, you don't have to write your own pseudo-driver to connect up
two streams.

Was there an IPC extension for STREAMS in a later release which I'm
unaware of?  (We run ISC 2.2, which gives System V Release 3.2
support.)  Or am I missing something obvious?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can shed some light on this for me.
-- 
Tom Quan
Mitel Corporation, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
tq at software.mitel.com,  uunet!mitel!software!tq