On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:06:33AM +0000, James Sutherland wrote:
> performance than it would for an httpd, because of the long-lived
> sessions, but rewriting it as a state machine (no forking, threads or
> other crap, just use non-blocking I/O) would probably make much more
> sense.
>From a kernel coders perspective, possibly. But a lot of SMB details are
pretty convoluted. Statemachines may produce more efficient code but can be
hell to maintain and expand. Bugs can hide in lots of corners.
Regards,
bert hubert
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