Re: kernel mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD?

From: CHOI Junho (cjh_at_kr.FreeBSD.org)
Date: 02/08/05

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To: max@love2party.net

    From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
    Subject: Re: kernel mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD?
    Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:19:45 +0100

    > 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.

    I understand what you mean. If so, why serious network server like nfs
    is still in kernel?

    Of course it is a fat job to implement http/ftp in kernel, but it can
    be a good experiment... 

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