From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:10:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:10:07 -0500 Received: from iq.sch.bme.hu ([152.66.226.168]:19756 "EHLO iq.rulez.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:09:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:12:49 +0100 Message-Id: <200101241512.QAA01140@iq.rulez.org> From: "Sasi Peter" To: James Sutherland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is sendfile all that sexy? X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.21 X-IPAddress: 195.228.20.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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: sape@sch.hu / http://sape.iq.rulez.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/