Re: In-kernel Gopher server

[John Bradford]

Quote from Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, John Bradford wrote:
> 
> > Maybe the wristwatch example was a bit extreme, but what about a
> > system with very low bandwidth for connectivity?  What if you were
> > trying to get configuration data back from a spacecraft millions of
> > miles away?  At 300 BPS or less, and hours of latency, Gopher starts
> > to look a bit more realistic than getting a shell prompt via ssh :-).
> 
> Ok so i've missed the point as to why we need it in the kernel.

There probably isn't one.  It would be perfectly do-able in userspace.

John.
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