Re: multiple consumers of msmux
"Erik E. Fair" <[email protected]>
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I wanted to keep this discussion AWAY from streams as a networking API, because it is known to suck so badly - it is explicitly connection-oriented, and has no notion of datagrams with distinct sources or destinations, except as that might have been shoe-horned in on the original architecture as an ugly hack by the idiots at USL. I'm not going to fight this war again; sockets won, get over it. It's not germane to this discussion. The original streams was intended as a replacement for tty line disciplines, which are very, very messy. Dennis came up with something cleaner, which had some very nice properties for the purpose. I only brought it up as a model to think about while discussing the wscons keyboard interface issue at hand. Erik <[email protected]>