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STREAMS Programming Guide

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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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Stream as a Data Path

A stream is a data path that passes data in both directions between a STREAMS driver in kernel space, and a process in user space. An application creates a stream by opening a STREAMS device (see Figure 1–1 ).

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