> Reading further in the thread, it's not surprising that Linux reinvented the
> wheel to a completely confusing result for those of us with an actual Unix
> background.  Linux ain't Unix.

Interesting point of view, since those system calls were actually 
introduced in Solaris and then ported to Linux.

In fact I think that things like this one, or like Linux's signalfd are 
much more Unix-y than things like SYSV's STREAMS.

Paolo