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Hmmm.... Very strange rule, I think. What's difference between student's problem and problem of real programmer? Especially if you see my problem isn't from RTFM category. But I follow the rules and next time invent something about angry boss and crashing project

We bend the rules a little every now and then. Solaris Internals Core Kernel Architectures was no help. It barely mentions pipes and it ignores Streams. The Magic Garden Explained was more helpful. The Streams pipe driver just sets up a read queue and a write queue connected to each other. The data area is dynamically allocated and is private to the driver. The kernel must access it by using the read and write routines that get connected to the vnode. Since it is dynamically allocated and private to the driver you are not going to get an address or anything. Hope that helps.

Perderabo, thanks a lot, your answer really helped me!

I bought my copy of "The Magic Garden Explained" back when I worked for Motorola. I was thinking of buying a copy for a friend as a present (geeky I know), but I guess the book is now out of print. There seems to be a number of acceptable used choices, but I'm suprised that such a resource would be out of print.

Keith

Here is another option. Check this out. I bought a copy at that $4.99 price and I got a hardback edition. The book describes 386BSD which is why this book is out of print. But it's a very good kernel book nonetheless. It is different from most kernel books. Rather than explaining how a kernel works, this book tries to explain how to write a kernel. And for $4.99, it's a bargain!

Just bought mine as well. Sounds like yet another good resource. Thanks

Keith

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