Re: multiple consumers of msmux

"Erik E. Fair" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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]>
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