Re: Can a module block?

[Jon Masters <jonmasters@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:02:15 +0200, Alberto Rodriguez Galdo
<argaldo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, I can't see any reason to implement a tcp server-based app as a
> kernel module and not as an userland app....

It's a bad idea.

You can do this but unless you have some critically important latency
reason to do this inside the kernel then it's just not worth
considering - kernel code is harder to tweak, harder to debug and runs
without a safety net. It's also harder to handle sleeping and other
fundamental issues of socket based communications from within the
kernel.

> Can you tell me your reasons? ... if you don't mind, of course ;-)

Can you tell us your reasons for doing this in-kernel?

Jon.

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