On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I think, that is not what we need. Once Ingo wrote, that since HTTP
> > serving can also be viewed as a kind of fileserving, it should be
> > possible to create a TUX like module for the same framwork, that serves
> > using the SMB protocol instead of HTTP...
>
>
> Kernel SMB is basically not a sane idea. sendfile can help it though
Right now, ISTR Samba is still a forking daemon?? This has less impact on
performance than it would for an httpd, because of the long-lived
sessions, but rewriting it as a state machine (no forking, threads or
other crap, just use non-blocking I/O) would probably make much more
sense.
James.
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