Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:40:06 +0200 From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: CHOI Junho <cjh@kr.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kernel mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20050210114006.GB73291@phantom.cris.net> In-Reply-To: <200502071319.57331.max@love2party.net> References: <20050207.182021.68162131.cjh@kr.FreeBSD.org> <200502071319.57331.max@love2party.net>
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 01:19:45PM +0100, Max Laier wrote: > On Monday 07 February 2005 10:20, CHOI Junho wrote: > > Anyone knows about kernel-mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD? (just like tux > > of linuxI searched several times but failed. > > No there is not. In my humble opinion it's a *really* bad idea to implement > something that vulnarable to external attacks and buffer overflows inside the > kernel. The often claimed performance benefit can as easily be achieved with > accept filters (see esp. accf_http(9)) and kqueue(9). There is really no > need to put this into the kernel. Why not ? Having small and reliable kernel http server able to handle static content only and limited functionality, would be useful in many cases.home | help
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