Streamline
Streamline is a pipelined I/O subsystem for both kernel and application processing on Linux, with 40+ filters for pattern matching, stream reassembly, compression, etc. It exports the pipes, sockets, and pcap interfaces and uses shared memory to reduce I/O copy and context switch cost. Logical uses are rapid application development of intrusion detection systems and similar complex network processing tasks.
| Tags | Networking Monitoring Operating System Kernels Linux |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
| Translations | English |
Recent releases
- 12 Feb 2009 01:33
Changes: All the examples on the Web site have been verified to work (which required fixing some regression bugs).
- 02 Feb 2009 10:22
Changes: This version updates the stream language to be a superset of Unix shell pipelines and improves support for hybrid pipelines consisting of streamline filters (e.g., in the network stack) and full Unix processes. Because of the extensive interface changes, this version is less mature than 1.7.4.5 and has little documentation (other than the mailing list).
- 15 Oct 2008 17:43
Changes: This is mainly a bugfix release for PipesFS, which proved to have many (even shameful) bugs in its first release. All known issues but one have been resolved. Unrelated new features include the mpipe() call for multi-consumer pipes, an interface to directly manipulate active filters, and an expanded automated test set to minimize future regressions.
- 14 Aug 2008 14:20
Changes: This is mainly a bugfix release. It bumps kernel support up to 2.6.26, fixes regressions down to 2.6.19, reduces signalling overhead (increasing small packet performance), and fixes a host of issues that resulted from switching to blocking as default stream behavior in 1.7.4. The socket, pipe, and pcap interfaces have all been verified to work.
- 09 Jul 2008 20:13
Changes: A critical bug in the installation process has been fixed.
