generalizing khttpd

Christoph Lameter (christoph@lameter.com)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:08:18 -0700 (PDT)

You are talking about a function call taking a filehandle and a socket
which would send the file contents directly onto the socket right?

something like send_file(filehandle,sockethandle)

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Jordan Mendelson wrote:

> Why create a specific server in kernel mode designed to serve out static files
> to a TCP socket when so many things other than web servers would improve from
> this? FTP servers, News servers, Mail servers, etc would all benefit from an
> increase in speed.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to generalize khttpd into a series of syscalls userland
> servers can use to dish out static files at maximum speed and efficiency?
>
>
> Jordan
>
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