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Updated: July 2014

STREAMS Programming Guide

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Using This Documentation

Part I Application Programming Interface

Chapter 1 Overview of STREAMS

Chapter 2 STREAMS Application-Level Components

STREAMS Interfaces

Opening a STREAMS Device File

Queue Allocation

Adding and Removing Modules

Closing the Stream

Stream Construction Example

Chapter 3 STREAMS Application-Level Mechanisms

Chapter 4 Application Access to the STREAMS Driver and Module Interfaces

System Calls Used

Module and Driver ioctl Calls

Chapter 5 STREAMS Administration

Administration Tools

Autopush Facility

Administration Tool Description

Chapter 6 Pipes and Queues

Overview of Pipes and FIFOs

Creating and Opening Pipes and FIFOs

Part II Kernel Interface

Part III Advanced Topics

Part IV Appendixes

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How STREAMS Works at the Kernel Level

Developers implementing STREAMS device drivers and STREAMS modules use a set of STREAMS-specific functions and data structures. This section describes some basic kernel-level STREAMS concepts.

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