Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Preparations for ZD's upcoming Apache/Linux benchmark | Date | 10 Jun 1999 15:03:40 GMT |
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Followup to: <7jn1ak$lgs$1@palladium.transmeta.com> By author: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > What header? Userspace only needs to call accept() and get a file > >descriptor -- it will never know the difference after that. > > I don't know enough about the spec to even know whether there is any > persistent "state" across the operations. If there is not, then no > header is necessary, obviously. I thought of the header as a way of > possibly initializing any persistent state issues so that the user mode > could know about the fact that we've used the socket. >
HTTP per se has no persistent state. Any kind of persistent state is encoded explicitly in the data stream or in a stateful server.
-hpa -- "The user's computer downloads the ActiveX code and simulates a 'Blue Screen' crash, a generally benign event most users are familiar with and that would not necessarily arouse suspicions." -- Security exploit description on http://www.zks.net/p3/how.asp
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