Examples
On most operating systems, including Unix-like and Windows, access of any file from a process is an example of a byte stream. In particular each process has three standard streams, that are examples of unidirectional byte streams. A pipe mechanism is often used to connect them between processes, to enable process-to-process byte streams.
One well-known example of a communication protocol which provides a byte-stream service to its clients is the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) of the Internet protocol suite, which provides a bidirectional byte stream.
The Internet media type for an arbitrary byte stream is application/octet-stream. Other media types are defined for byte streams in well-known formats.
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