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Linux Fast-STREAMS
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Linux Fast-STREAMS is intendeed as a high-performance, production replacement
for Linux STREAMS (LiS).  In contrast, Linux Fast-STREAMS has the following
features in contrast to Linux Fast-STREAMS:

Linux Fast-STREAMS			Linux STREAMS (LiS)
======================================  ======================================
Provided and optimized for Linux.       Maintain portability across Linux,    
Ports to other OSs (BSD?) possible.     User Space, QNX, DOS and other ports. 
--------------------------------------  --------------------------------------

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Promotes mainstream kernel adoption.    Places portability concerns before    
                                        mainstream kernel adoption.           
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Lindented and follows normal kernel     Non-lindented, does not follow normal 
formatting and coding practices.        kernel formatting and coding practice.
--------------------------------------  --------------------------------------

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Provides compatibility modes for AIX,   Provides some compatibility interfaces
HPUX, OSF, Solaris, UnixWare, SVR 4.2   but also many Linux-derived inetrfaces
and LiS.  Supports all majjor SVR 4.2   specific to LiS.                      
variants.                                                                     
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Licensed under GPL with commercial      Dubiously licensed under LGPL.        
licensing avaliable.                                                          
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Supports full SVR4.2 MP sychronization  Supports only a single, Linux derived 
models.                                 synchronization model.                
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Runs at SoftIRQ.                        Separate kernel threads.              
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Provides common SVR4.2 system tunable   Provides only log based debugging.    
parameters as sysctls as well as /proc                                        
filesystem support for debugging.                                             
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Provides support for SVR4.2 STREAMS     Provides a limited set of LiS only    
and other utilities.                    Linux-derived utlities.               
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Provides full named-streams device and  Provides only character-based node    
device filesystem support.              support.                              
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