On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 09:11:46PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Hugo Mills posted on Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:55:20 +0000 as excerpted:
> 
> > receive is implemented almost exclusively in userspace, with only a
> > couple of ioctls for mucking around with the UUIDs at the end.
> 
> I wasn't aware of that and had assumed kernel space.  Apart from the 
> topic of discussion here, that has implications for the old "how old is 
> too old" versioning question regarding userspace, so thanks, Hugo. =:^)

   Note that send is still heavily kernel-side. It's only receive
that's all in userspace.

   Hugo.

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