Benefits of STREAMS

STREAMS provides the following benefits:

• A flexible, portable, and reusable set of tools for development of UNIX system communication services.

• Easy creation of modules that offer standard data communications services and the ability to manipulate those modules on a Stream.

• From user level, modules can be dynamically selected and interconnected; kernel programming, assembly, and link editing are not required to create the interconnection.

STREAMS also greatly simplifies the user interface for languages that have complex input and output requirements.