jgy@hropus.UUCP (John Young) (03/28/88)
With the recent discussions on streams I figured I'd throw in a couple of questions. Does anyone know the reason's for the lack lack of the following multiplexing features: The inability to have more than NOFILES (100 in SVR3.1) STREAMS opened/multiplexed? - A multiplexor would seem to be the ideal way to address an issue like this efficently. The inability to receive signals on more than one STREAM? (other than SIGPOLL) - Not only a multiplexing issue. The lack of the inverse of a "SIGHUP" signal. - Not only a multiplexing issue. Does Berkley's SOCKETS feature provide any of these features? John Young AT&T-BL 480 Red Hill rd. Middletown, NJ 07748
pafford@dg-rtp.dg.com (Randy Pafford) (08/31/89)
I'm trying to find out how to set up a "stream pipe" between two arbitrary processes. In particular, I want to pass file descriptors using the I_SENDFD option on an ioctl (streamio(7)). The Streams Programmer's Guide I have mentions this construct (Appendix B-6), and then says "The means by which such a structure is created is not described in this document."