Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: TCP Splice alleviates proxy bottleneck | Date | Tue, 19 Jan 1999 05:37:48 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > Their ? Having looked at the reference I'd like Larry McVoy's opinion on > > its originality 8) > > I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you referring to Larry McVoy's > paper "Splice - a push pull I/O model for Unix" dated 6/24/98 [1]?
Yep
> it is. My first experience with this kind of splicing was in 198"mumble" > with an authentication server for an early implementation of Datakit > at Bell Labs. I think network splicing in that context was "invented"
Nod. I met someone at Usenix who thought LM wasnt original either and had hacked into into some early 1980's BSD box. I guess it goes back a long way
> My point in bringing their work to the linux-kernel list was not to > proclaim their ordinality or uniqueness with this technique, but rather > to encourage the Linux developers to think about adding this kind of > functionality to the kernel.
Always be wary of IBM papers, IBM have an "if its more than 2 lines long patent it" approach to life. Generally its a good idea to type the authors names into the patent server before reading
Alan
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