21 Sep
2017
21 Sep
'17
10:25 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
The STREAMS stuff never performed well
Larry is being polite. It sucked.
It was never designed for it. dmr designed Streams to replace the tty
handler. I never understood why the Summit guys insisted on forcing
networking into it.
and the BSD TCP stack or something
like it went into Solaris at some point.
Right. This is one of the places where SVR4 != Solaris
I was researching a book a long time ago and looked at this. I had
Solaris, SVR4 and some other stuff at the time. Like you bit rot has long
set in on the details, but I do remember that the primary thing that
Solaris had was support for Sun's threading model and the networking code
had to be a first class citizen or it was not going to scale.