[openbeosnetteam] Re: kernel- or user-land [Was: Change of heart...]
- From: "Graham Gilmore" <grahamg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 00:45:58 -0500
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>> That's a lot of flexibility to trade away for a performance
>> difference
>> that not a lot of users will notice.
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>No, you are wrong, a kernel stack properly done is easily ripped out.
Easily ripped out by whom? Kernel developers, perhaps :-) Personally,
I wouldn't know where to start (though I would have a clue with a user
space network stack, because I know how user space applications work).
And wouldn't that require modifying the kernel itself? That seems
rather more drastic than simply giving the user an application with a
built-in network stack to fire up on their existing kernel.
>And you don't have to use it for networking at all. You could still
>(and indeed, can) run net=5Fserver on a BONE BeOS system.
I'll be the first to say that I'm no expert on either kernels or
network stacks :) How does one bypass the built-in network stack in the
kernel?
Graham
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