kernel mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD?

[CHOI Junho]

From: Max Laier <max at love2party.net>
Subject: Re: kernel mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD?
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:19:45 +0100

> On Monday 07 February 2005 10:20, CHOI Junho wrote:
> > Anyone knows about kernel-mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD? (just like tux
> >  of linuxI searched several times but failed.
> 
> 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.

I understand what you mean. If so, why serious network server like nfs
is still in kernel?

Of course it is a fat job to implement http/ftp in kernel, but it can
be a good experiment...

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