Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > > >I would propose something like a new builtin command called "streamctl" > >(stream control) which has sub-commands for testing whether a stream is > >seekable, do various seeking operations (seek_to_position, seek_hole, > >seek_data), list_substreams and split_substreams (the last two things > >are for SCTP&co.). > >Comments/suggestions/ideas welcome... > > Why not just an "lseek" command?
Sounds good (except that it lacks the SCTP stuff, but I guess it should better be offloaded to something like "sctpstreamctl"...) ... I'll write a proposal... > Doesn't even need to be a builtin. Only if the shell uses the streams directly - if something like stdio is used to buffer input/output a resync is required (but then... calling external applications would require such a resync anyway so this should be no real problem). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
