From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 23 16:45:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3221537B421 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0099.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.99] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 1709xM-0003S9-00; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:44:21 -0700 Message-ID: <3CC5F1B8.45A17EA4@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:43:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: utsl@quic.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendfile() in tftpd? References: <3CC59C44.13013A1E@mindspring.com> <15557.40442.852602.681416@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020423182839.GA22074@quic.net> <15557.43312.713502.540548@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020423195947.GA22950@quic.net> <15557.48900.773726.309492@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020423204622.GA23933@quic.net> <15557.51972.914307.703315@caddis.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nate Williams wrote: > > That's what everyone else said, and why that stupid protocol still > > exists. > > No, it exists because it's good enough to do the job. It's not optimal, > but it's good enough. Optimal for all situations means re-inventing TCP > over and over again, which is non-optimal from an engineering point of > view, IMO. "Good is the enemy of better." "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." "Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't." 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message