Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:29:25 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: Is sendfile all that sexy? |
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Sasi Peter wrote:
> > AIUI, Jeff Merkey was working on loading "userspace" apps into the > kernel > > to tackle this sort of problem generically. I don't know if he's > tried it > > with Samba - the forking would probably be a problem... > > I think, that is not what we need. Once Ingo wrote, that since HTTP > serving can also be viewed as a kind of fileserving, it should be > possible to create a TUX like module for the same framwork, that serves > using the SMB protocol instead of HTTP...
I must admit I'm a bit sceptical - apart from anything else, Jeff's approach allows a bug in the server software to blow the whole OS away, instead of just quietly coring! (Or, worse still, trample on some FS metadata in RAM... eek!) A TUX module would be a nice idea, although I haven't even been able to find a proper TUX web page - Google just gave page after page of mailing list archives and discussion about it :-(
James.
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