stropts.h

[David Grothe]

Dear glibc maintainers:

I notice that glibc20, which comes with Red Hat 6.0 Linux, has a family
of header files which implement stropts.h.  As the author of Linux
STREAMS (LiS) I am familiar with the constructs in this file.

One of my LiS users wrote to report that he was experiencing conflicts
between the stropts.h in glibc and the stropts.h distributed with LiS.

I would like to know if you would be interested in some form of
coordination between these files.  When one installs LiS on Linux there
is a library which resolves the symbols "getpmsg" and "putpmsg".  Linus
assigned system call slots for these two functions for me about a year
ago.  LiS does not yet implement "fattach" and "fdetach", but will
probably do so using ioctls rather than a direct system call.

The glibc behavior is fine for systems in which LiS has not been
installed, but it would be better all around if we could make the
linking process seamless for users who have installed LiS.

Thanks,
Dave