Package LiS-2.18.5 was released under GPLv2 2007-03-15. The OpenSS7 Linux STREAMS (LiS) package is an OpenSS7 modified version of the LiS-2.18 package formerly from GCOM, and formerly maintained by David Grothe.
Note: The original LiS package from GCOM is no longer actively maintained by either GCOM or the OpenSS7 Project: use the OpenSS7 Linux Fast-STREAMS package instead. The following are claims made by its authors and original maintainer: The OpenSS7 Modified Linux STREAMS (LiS) package is as STREAMS framework that is compatible with SVR 4 STREAMS. It has lots of debugging features not found in other STREAMS packages. Good to do networking and other things. It allows for installation of binary drivers. Linux STREAMS (LiS) aims to provide SVR 4 compatible STREAMS implementation for Linux and claims to have special debugging facilities; however, the package suffers from the major failings that it is: - no longer maintained; - full of bugs; - incompatible with POSIX; - implements SVR 4 STREAMS rather than the more popular SVR 4.2 MP/ES STREAMS; - portions dubiously licensed under the LGPL; - unsuitable for mainline adoption; - adapts poorly to production kernels; - many SMP races and lockups; - broken 32-bit over 64-bit compatibility; - no strlog(9) STREAMS logger; This is an internal release of LiS. There are too many packages now that cannot build against LiS because it is lacking fundamental capabilities in the Stream head. Do not use this release. Port to Linux Fast-STREAMS. Do not report bugs on this release. (Yup, there are lots of 'em, but that's LiS.) Major changes for release LiS-2.18.5 - Added versions to all exported symbols. Made LiS functions GPL export. - Improvements to the common build environment with better support for standalone package builds on 2.4 kernels. - Support for autoconf 2.61, automake 2.10 and gettext 0.16. - Support for Ubuntu 6.10 distribution and bug fixes for i386 kenels. This is an unstable public alpha release of the package. Please see README-alpha in the release. information. Do not report bugs on this package. A large number of additional tests cases were found to fail on x86_64 and SMP architectures making the LiS packages largely unusable, especially on 64-bit or SMP kernels. Deprecated and unmaintained. Download the latest streams package version instead. As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel. This package is publicly released under the `GNU General Public License Version 2'. The release is available as an autoconf tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads page (http://www.openss7.org/download.html) for the autoconf tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. For tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs and binary RPMs and DEBs, see the LiS package page (http://www.openss7.org/LiS_pkg.html). See http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/LiS-2.18.5/ChangeLog and http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/LiS-2.18.5/NEWS in the release for more information. Also, see the `LiS.pdf' manual in the release (also in html http://www.openss7.org/LiS_manual.html). For the news release, see `http://www.openss7.org/rel20070315_0.html'. -- Brian F. G. Bidulock [email protected] http://www.openss7.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-streams mailing list [email protected] http://www.openss7.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams
