Re: Can a module block?

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> Hi, I can't see any reason to implement a tcp server-based app as a
> kernel module and not as an userland app....

>>It's a bad idea.

>>You can do this but unless you have some critically important latency
>>reason to do this inside the kernel then it's just not worth
>>considering - kernel code is harder to tweak, harder to debug and runs
>>without a safety net

Yeah absolutely. A TCP server implementation makes no sense as a kernel module, whatever advantage that you gain by such a implementation  could very easily nullified by a bad carrier and the TCP overhead
is makes things worse.  

-raghav-



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