From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 1 13:39:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA21709 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:39:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from netcom14.netcom.com (hasty@netcom14.netcom.com [192.100.81.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA21694 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:38:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@netcom.com) Received: (from hasty@localhost) by netcom14.netcom.com (8.8.5-r-beta/8.8.5/(NETCOM v1.02)) id NAA03509; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:38:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:38:40 -0800 (PST) From: Amancio Hasty Jr Message-Id: <199712012138.NAA03509@netcom14.netcom.com> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: ftp server on ftp.cdrom.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of state machine with the functionality to share data transfers you know to avoid the case of hundreds of users opening a single file N times. Most network engineers are familiar with an event or a state machine driven network server . Cheers, Amancio