Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

[Sasi Peter]

> AIUI, Jeff Merkey was working on loading "userspace" apps into the 
kernel
> to tackle this sort of problem generically. I don't know if he's 
tried it
> with Samba - the forking would probably be a problem...

I think, that is not what we need. Once Ingo wrote, that since HTTP 
serving can also be viewed as a kind of fileserving, it should be 
possible to create a TUX like module for the same framwork, that serves 
using the SMB protocol instead of HTTP...

-- SaPE / Sasi Péter / mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://sape.iq.rulez.org/
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