Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [question] implentation of smb-browsing: kernel space or user space? | Date | 19 Jan 2002 13:58:31 -0800 |
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Followup to: <E16RtOX-0007Ao-00@mrvdom00.kundenserver.de> By author: Christian =?iso-8859-1?q?Borntr=E4ger?= <linux-kernel@borntraeger.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > My question is: Do you think, that this kind of filesystem is sensible, or do > you think that smb-stuff has to be in user space. (for example using the > filesystem in userspace approach, shown some weeks ago)? >
It REALLY should be in user space. Putting this kind of crap in the kernel is insane. Note also that *browsing* (network 'hood) is different from *mounting* -- even on Windows it is very common that there are computers you can't see in your browse windows that you can access by name.
Consider DNS -- it *used* to be possible to enumerate DNS (these days, most servers will deny access to you if you try), but it has been a long, long time since it was ever practical. However, you can do blind resolution quite trivially.
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