On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:26:39PM +0000, Ashok Sharma wrote: > Can an HTTP server be implemented as a kernel module? In case yes > then what will be the issues to be tackled and what will be the > dis-advantages It can be done, much in the same way as pigs fly just fine with sufficient thrust. Disdadvantages are numerous: - security: when things go wrong you're running in kernel mode with all privileges - programming mistakes will result in a kernel oops instead of a segmentation fault - the usual "don't read files from kernel space", see the FAQ on the website about that > (besides the advantages). Please tell a bit more about the advantages, because I don't think there are any. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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