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SubjectRe: Why khttpd is a bad idea (was a pointless argument about
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 07:25:02PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Matthew Wilcox said:
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 07:13:40PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > > khttpd is also attractive for embedded systems 8)
> >
> > uhh.. why do you want an embedded system to serve static webpages?
> > dynamic webpages, I can understand, so it can report its status.
> If you have ever seen 3Com's NetBuilder SuperStack II, or the 3Com's
> Switches WEB-based management interface, then you would certainly see a
> reason for static webpages in an embedded environment.

And you assert this could not be done in user space at sufficient speed?

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Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson

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