SVR3.0 vs BSD4.3

[Larry McVoy]

In article <10179 at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell at hector (Eduardo Krell) writes:
>In article <4441 at megaron.arizona.edu> I said:
>
>>(It should be obvious but I'll drive it home:  the streams code that I've
>>seen copies the data out of the upper level buffer and then into the 
>
>Well, now. The streams modules that I've seen so far avoid copying data
>as much as possible. Passing a message up or downstream is often
>accomplished by just passing pointers to the data.

Several people have pointed this out to me.  It seems that I have been 
exposed to some fairly poorly written streams code and it is that code,
not streams, that is brain-damaged.
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