Talk:STREAMS

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[edit] Advantages and disadvantages vs. sockets?

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An important concept in STREAMS is the ability to push drivers — custom code modules that can modify the functionality of a network interface or other device — together to form a stack. Several of these drivers can be chained together in order.

If this is the biggest difference between STREAMS and Berkeley Sockets, then no wonder STREAMS didn't catch on so much. :) But seriously, what are the advantages of this networking API over the Berkeley one? Or vice versa? --FOo 22:31, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

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