kernel mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD?

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Mon Feb 7 17:30:34 PST 2005



Max Laier wrote:

>On Monday 07 February 2005 10:20, CHOI Junho wrote:
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>>Anyone knows about kernel-mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD? (just like tux
>> of linuxI searched several times but failed.
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>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.
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actually there is..
it was written by  ummm
umm
jpd I think.. (unless it was imp)

but it is not released.

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