Networking


Traditionally only Wyse had sane (BSD) networking
even saner than Linux (at the syscall level)
Else STREAMS :(

Else ither /dev/socksys
basically BSDish networking ontop of a magic chardevice
plus a magic dispatch syscall (socksys_syscall)
plus many many ioctl
works mostly

... or TLI/XTI
completly different from BSD networking
even more ioctl..
worked once on client side (have no testcases)

Trend goes towards BSDish semantics at the syscall level
Solaris since 2.6 (emulated)
UnixWare since 7.x (slightly different API, WIP)