13 Apr
2020
13 Apr
'20
5 a.m.
Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> once said:
It did? I think a version of streams showed up at some
point, and were
replaced; of that you are correct. But it certainly didn't begin with
anything like streams. It began with a file system mux.
I realize you would probably know better, but ...
I didn't mean that streams was the first thing in Plan 9, just that the
I/O system for pipes, network devices, etc. was descended from streams.
That was the case at least as far back as 1990.
Look at the early Plan 9 code for the pipe¹ and ethernet² devices, the
code for Streams, Queues, and Blocks in port/stream.c³ and power/dat.h⁴,
and tell me that doesn't descend from v8 streams. :)
Also, thanks for Plan 9. It's lovely.
Anthony
1.
https://github.com/0intro/9hist/blob/13601b6f49db83aa369e382f5242927a46d2a4…
2.
https://github.com/0intro/9hist/blob/13601b6f49db83aa369e382f5242927a46d2a4…
3.
https://github.com/0intro/9hist/blob/13601b6f49db83aa369e382f5242927a46d2a4…
4.
https://github.com/0intro/9hist/blob/13601b6f49db83aa369e382f5242927a46d2a4…