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Date:      Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:30:34 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        CHOI Junho <cjh@kr.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: kernel mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <4208163A.8010607@elischer.org>
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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Max Laier wrote:

>On Monday 07 February 2005 10:20, CHOI Junho wrote:
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>>Anyone knows about kernel-mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD? (just like tux
>> of linuxI searched several times but failed.
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>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.
>

actually there is..
it was written by  ummm
umm
jpd I think.. (unless it was imp)

but it is not released.

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