On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:52:35 +0100 (IST) Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Anyone know if doorfs has been ported to Linux? Or, for that matter, why > > are doors supposed to be more efficient than sockets? > > never used it but http://www.rampant.org/doors/ > > Also I'm not sure on Linux doors would be more efficient than local UNIX > sockets, Solaris might have its own reasons but they probably don't apply > to Linux.. Yep, Solaris sockets (at least pre-Solaris 10 [0]) used streams which had a detrimental affect on socket throughput. Doors might be a way of avoiding that. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "No Silicon Heaven? Preposterous! Where would all the calculators go?" -- Kryten, Red Dwarf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
