Re: tux officially in kernel?

David Lang (dlang@diginsite.com)
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:11:09 -0800 (PST)


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.

David Lang
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