Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

From: Sasi Peter (sape@iq.rulez.org)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 10:12:49 EST


> 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...

-- SaPE / Sasi Péter / mailto: sape@sch.hu / http://sape.iq.rulez.org/
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