Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:11:09 -0800 (PST) | From | David Lang <> | Subject | Re: tux officially in kernel? |
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On 14 Feb 2002, Robert Love wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 18:33, J Sloan wrote: > > > So, just out of curioisity, why is khttpd in > > the kernel? If there were any web server > > in the mainline kernel I'd think it'd be tux - > > Personally khttpd should be ripped from the kernel. It is a nice, uh, > example. Or something.
Linus put khttpd in the kernel just after sendfile support was added, IIRC he said something about khttpd being a very small number of lines to add once sendfile support was there.
if it's really that small (IIRC <<100 lines of code) it's still in there becouse it's not worth ripping out.
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