[PATCH] Remove obsolete, never-implemented XSI STREAMS declarations

Zack Weinberg zackw@panix.com
Tue Feb 26 19:33:00 GMT 2019


On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:51 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> * Zack Weinberg:
>
> > Please search the source tree for
> > additional references to STREAMS, XTI, stropts.h, xti[types].h, the
> > types defined by stropts.h, etc. and remove them or replace them with
> > notes that we do not implement STREAMS, as appropriate.
>
> I see.  What about the patch below?

Seems reasonable (I didn't do a search for more references myself)

> I removed the isastream call from the pseudo-terminal example in the
> manual, too.

Yeah, this also seems fine.  The only reason to keep this around would
be if some current Unix still needed it, and if that were the case
POSIX probably wouldn't have obsolesced STREAMS.  (Does anyone know
for sure?)

zw



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