Re: kHTTPd: Good or Bad

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:00:34 +0100 (BST)

> > "here is a socket, here is a file, do your stuff then kick me."
>
> Why not asking the kernel to compile file, to copy file, to tar files, or
> to do any kind of work. Then we can just get rid of what has been called

Precisely.

You want a small set of very clean functions that are generically useful.
What Im talking about is basically asynchronous sendfile. That is much
more generically useful

Alan

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