> 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.
David Lang
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