Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.15] Adding kernel-level identd dispatcher | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:53:27 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:48 -0800, Edward Chernenko wrote: > > --- Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> > wrote: > > > Most servers are designed for low latency. A lot of > > them sleep a lot, > > and a fair number of them also go poking around the > > kernel variables > > in /proc (which exists precisely in order to export > > internal kernel > > variables to userspace programs). I'll bet even your > > average Oracle > > database application fits those criteria. > > > > Echo made sense to move into the kernel because in > > addition to the above > > it is a required feature on all Internet hosts, is > > pretty much stateless > > (and/or depends only on internal IP stack state), > > and needs extra low > > latency because it is designed to be used for timing > > purposes by > > clients. > > The same criteria hardly apply to identd. > > If so, then why khttpd _was_ included into kernel?
That has been widely acknowledged as a mistake. You'll note that khttpd was removed prior to the release of linux-2.6.0. Nobody misses it.
Cheers, Trond
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