Does linux have the Stream Driver mechanism ?

From: Zhou Guilin <zho...@tirc.dcs.tsinghua.edu.cn>
Subject: Does linux have the Stream Driver mechanism ?
Date: 1996/10/04
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Sco UNIX and BSD UNIX have stream driver mechanisms, so we can write device 
driver with the stream interface conviently. Does linux have the same interface ?

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Date: 1996/10/10
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In article <32545632.4...@tirc.dcs.tsinghua.edu.cn>,
Zhou Guilin  <zho...@tirc.dcs.tsinghua.edu.cn> wrote:
>Sco UNIX and BSD UNIX have stream driver mechanisms, so we can write device 
>driver with the stream interface conviently. Does linux have the same interface ?

BSD Unix doesn't. Some mixed BSD/USL systems do. Streams tend to be slow and
bulky sowe don't support them

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