STREAMS/UX for the HP 9000 Reference Manual

Preface

STREAMS/UX for the HP 9000 is Hewlett Packard's implementation of the

AT&T de facto standard environment for communications protocols.

STREAMS/UX consists of the STREAMS environment, Transport Layer

Interface (TLI), and XTI. TLI is an industry de facto standard application

program interface for implementing transport-level communications by

means of STREAMS-based network protocol stacks. HP also provides a

Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI) adapter with the core operating system.

DLPI is one industry standard definition for message communications to

STREAMS-based network interface drivers.

This manual includes information on how to install STREAMS/UX, how to

program with STREAMS/UX, and how to debug STREAMS/UX programs.

The programming information in this manual is intended to be used in

conjunction with the AT&T STREAMS manual called UNIX System V

Release 4 Programmer's Guide: STREAMS.

This manual contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1 Installation and Veriﬁcation of STREAMS/UX

describes product installation using HP's installation and

update program, swinstall, and describes how to verify

the installation.

Chapter 2 Detailed Product Information provides a more in-depth

explanation of the product installation, including instruc-

tions for manual kernel builds, information about

STREAMS drivers and modules, and descriptions of

STREAMS-related device ﬁles.

Chapter 3 Differences Between STREAMS/UX and System V

Release 4 STREAMS summarizes differences in areas

such as commands, system calls, utilities, drivers and data

structures, and is intended primarily for programmers.

Chapter 3 is written with the assumption that the

programmer has already read the AT&T manual UNIX

System V Release 4 Programmer's Guide: STREAMS.