What does bytestream-oriented means?

[Emanuel_Haine]

Hello everyone!

I am reading the Red Hat Virtualization documentation and this chapter (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/html/technical_reference/se...) talks about the Serial Driver, and it mentions bytestream-oriented. I have never heard/read this term.

Have you already heard/read about this? Could someone share something about it?

[Wasim_Raja · Accepted solution]

@Emanuel_Haine Thanks for reaching out.

I am not entirely sure if its correct I found the below statement when searched.

A bytestream-oriented driver is a driver that reads and writes data in a bytestream format. This means that the driver reads and writes data one byte at a time, rather than in larger chunks.

[Emanuel_Haine]

@Wasim_Raja , thanks for contributing to this post.

Speaking of a serial driver, it makes sense to me now.