22 Sep
2017
22 Sep
'17
12:26 a.m.
On 9/21/17 12:10 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
I'm pretty sure the two main System V based
TCP/IP stacks were STREAMS
based: the Lachman one (which I ported to the ETA-10 and to SCO Unix)
and the Mentat one that was done for Sun. The socket API was sort of
bolted on top of the STREAMS stuff, you could get to the STREAMS stuff
directly (I think, it's been a long time).
Here's an article describing the work Sun did (whether it started at Mentat
or not) to initially provide the socket interface on SVR4:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.29.7181&rep=re…
It was my impression that they started with the BSD kernel implementation
and used it to create `socklib' and `sockmod'.
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