Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:09:36 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Bloat? (khttpd) |
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Martin Dalecki wrote: > > > > Performance, and *modularity*. khttpd doesn't affect anything else in > > the kernel, and so is a rather harmless optional feature. > > There where times where for example /proc was an option too... >
/proc was never modular. It touches *everything*, which makes it completely different. Sooner or later, it gets too painful to maintain everything in, effectively, 2^N compilation modes.
-hpa
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