STREAMS Programming Guide

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  Preface

  Part I Application Programming Interface

  1.  Overview of STREAMS

  2.  STREAMS Application-Level Components

STREAMS Interfaces

STREAMS System Calls

Action Summary

Opening a STREAMS Device File

Initializing Details

Queue Allocation

Adding and Removing Modules

Closing the Stream

Stream Construction Example

Inserting Modules

Module and Driver Control

  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_FLUSH Message Handling

Flushing According to Priority Bands

Driver and Module Service Interfaces

Service Interface Library Example

Message Type Change Rules

Common ioctl Interfaces

FIORDCHK

FIONREAD

I_NREAD

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

  D.  STREAMS FAQ

  Glossary

  Index