On Nov 11, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Paul Goodwin wrote:
Isn't that a bit of a red herring? I may have missed something
earlier,
but why couldn't the effort that went in to writing it in the linux
environment been spent on a native implementation instead?
Well, except that gskit had ALREADY been written for a bunch of other
things.
The VM development was basically a gruesome IUCV driver that guts the
TCP/IP stack and replaces it with its own unholy essence that serves
as, to all intents and purposes, stunnel-over-IUCV-not-TCPIP. Much
less work than an SSL implementation.
Adam