Re: RFC: PPP over X

[Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Henner Eisen wrote:

> Why not generalizing (essentially, it is just renaming) the paradigm
> 
>    'attaching ppp channel to connected socket'
> 
> to
> 
>    'attaching/tunneling arbitray protocol over connected socket' 

Anyone for STREAMS???

Seriously, if you want any chance of Linus/Alan/DaveM etc. being
interested, you have to show some specific actual thing that this would be
good for.  Just saying `this is a nice abstraction' will get you nowhere.

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