From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 1 20:59:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA28064 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 20:59:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA28053 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 20:59:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01761; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 20:56:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199712020456.UAA01761@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: joelh@gnu.org cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp server on ftp.cdrom.com In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Dec 1997 17:10:04 CST." <199712012310.RAA04045@detlev.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 20:56:08 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Not really , I am afraid I did this sort of things 10 years ago for Touch Communications and at Daisy. With Dyson's recent contribution to the kernel (aio routines ) we are almost at the point in which we can start tackling very large scalable servers 8) I guess for database companies or systems in which they implement their file system --- Dyson's aio routines are heaven .. Enjoy, Amancio > > > 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 . > > Well, I'll be the first to admit I'm no such engineer. I know about > state machines, etc, but haven't considered the network server aspect > of it. Could you tell me where I can find something out? > > Thanks, > joelh > > -- > Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan > Fourth law of programming: > Anything that can go wrong wi > sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped >