Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:22:56 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: In-kernel Gopher server |
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Quote from Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, John Bradford wrote: > > > Maybe the wristwatch example was a bit extreme, but what about a > > system with very low bandwidth for connectivity? What if you were > > trying to get configuration data back from a spacecraft millions of > > miles away? At 300 BPS or less, and hours of latency, Gopher starts > > to look a bit more realistic than getting a shell prompt via ssh :-). > > Ok so i've missed the point as to why we need it in the kernel.
There probably isn't one. It would be perfectly do-able in userspace.
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