Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:14:07 -0800 (PST) | From | Edward Chernenko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.15] Adding kernel-level identd dispatcher |
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--- Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote: > > Justification, please. > > You haven't even tried to explain to us what is so > broken about the > userland identd that it needs to be replaced with a > kernel version. >
My point is that everything which follows this conditions should be moved into kernel: - must dispatch requests in a fixed time - must work rarely, sleep most time - must depend on internal kernel variables (for example, established connections table)
Don't forget that many years ago there was echo daemon in userspace. But as it's highly effective to dispatch all echo requests in kernel, it was moved into low-level TCP implementation.
I think that ident protocol also matches this criteria.
Edward Chernenko <edwardspec@gmail.com>
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