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Part I Application Programming Interface

1. Overview of STREAMS

2. STREAMS Application-Level Components

3. STREAMS Application-Level Mechanisms

4. Application Access to the STREAMS Driver and Module Interfaces

5. STREAMS Administration

6. Pipes and Queues

Part II Kernel Interface

7. STREAMS Framework - Kernel Level

8. STREAMS Kernel-Level Mechanisms

ioctl Processing

Message Allocation and Freeing

Recovering From No Buffers

Read Device Interrupt Handler

Write Service Procedure

Releasing Callback Requests

Extended STREAMS Buffers

esballoc(9F) Example

General ioctl Processing

STREAMS ioctl Issues

I_STR ioctl Processing

Transparent ioctl

Transparent ioctl Messages

Transparent ioctl Examples

M_COPYIN Example

M_COPYOUT Example

Bidirectional Data Transfer Example

I_LIST ioctl(2)Example

M_FLUSH Message Handling

Flushing According to Priority Bands

Flushing Priority Band

Driver and Module Service Interfaces

Service Interface Library Example

Module Service Interface Example

Message Type Change Rules

Common ioctl Interfaces

signal Message

9. STREAMS Drivers

10. STREAMS Modules

11. Configuring STREAMS Drivers and Modules

12. Multithreaded STREAMS

13. STREAMS Multiplex Drivers

Part III Advanced Topics

14. Debugging STREAMS-based Applications

Part IV Appendixes

A. Message Types

B. Kernel Utility Interface Summary

C. STREAMS-Based Terminal Subsystem

Chapter 8

STREAMS Kernel-Level Mechanisms

This chapter describes the STREAMS kernel-level mechanisms:

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