[gpderetta]

It is not colloquial when talking about network protocols. From socket(2):

          SOCK_STREAM
              Provides sequenced, reliable, two-way, connection-based
              byte streams.  An out-of-band data transmission mechanism
              may be supported.

Not sure what your reference to buffering or async buffers and XML has to do with the topic.

[friendzis]

Here you go, right in the documentation you get that TCP streams are streams with additional qualifiers. Not simply streams. The whole thing we are arguing about: TCP streams are subset of streams.

> Not sure what your reference to buffering or async buffers and XML has to do with the topic. An illustrative point for what happens when assumptions from a contrived case are applied on a more relaxed case.