Re: kernel mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD?

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 02/08/05

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    Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:30:34 -0800
    To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
    
    

    Max Laier wrote:

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