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From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: [question] implentation of smb-browsing: kernel space or user space?
Date19 Jan 2002 13:58:31 -0800
Followup to:  <E16RtOX-0007Ao-00@mrvdom00.kundenserver.de>
By author:    Christian =?iso-8859-1?q?Borntr=E4ger?= 
	<linux-kernel@borntraeger.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> My question is: Do you think, that this kind of filesystem is sensible, or do 
> you think that smb-stuff has to be in user space. (for example using the 
> filesystem in userspace approach, shown some weeks ago)?
> 

It REALLY should be in user space.  Putting this kind of crap in the
kernel is insane.  Note also that *browsing* (network 'hood) is
different from *mounting* -- even on Windows it is very common that
there are computers you can't see in your browse windows that you can
access by name.
Consider DNS -- it *used* to be possible to enumerate DNS (these days,
most servers will deny access to you if you try), but it has been a
long, long time since it was ever practical.  However, you can do
blind resolution quite trivially.

	-hpa
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