Re: [PATCH 2.6.15] Adding kernel-level identd dispatcher

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Mar 27 2006 - 20:56:35 EST


Edward Chernenko <edwardspec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Comparing with khttpd, we have no need to make
> transfers between
> userspace and kernelspace; additionally, ident daemon
> depends on
> kernel connections table. This is very efficient to
> avoid using proc
> interface by userspace program here.

Check out the pidentd in Debian. It uses netlink instead of procfs which
is much more scalable.

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