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["David Reid" <dreid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Axel, do you have a direct channel into my mind??? You always manage to add
something I've forgotten or put across something I'm thinking about and
don't really get down.

david
(About to go and add silver foil around his head to keep Axel out :))

> > > The following code gets moved into the kernel proper...
> > > - mbuf's
> > > - pools (although he has soemthing similar already so I'll have a
> > > look at
> > > thats
> > > - sockets (including the main syscalls, i.e. accept, bind, select,
> > > listen
> > > etc etc)
> > > - sockbufs
> > I remain in the position that there is absolutely no reason whatever
> > that sockets need have their own syscalls: the current system works
> > quite well and is vastly more extensible.
>
> Not that I would really object against you, but it has an advantage:
> you can easily use networking functions from kernel drivers or file
> systems; you can use that API from everywhere.
>
> Adios...
>    Axel.