[PLUG] Morning MS Humor

[Kyle Accardi]

Paul Heinlein wrote:
> Interesting: the "front door" for IIS 6.0 is a kernel driver:
> 
>   The new kernel mode driver, HTTP.SYS, is a single point of contact 
>   for all incoming (server-side) HTTP requests. This provides high 
>   performance connectivity for HTTP server applications. The driver 
>   sits atop TCP/IP and receives all connection requests from the
>   IP/port combinations it is configured to listen on. HTTP.SYS is also
>   responsible for overall connection management, bandwidth throttling,
>   and Web server logging.
> 
> I can see where there could be some big performance benefits, ala the
> Linux khttpd, but I'm just not the sort of admin that likes to think
> that crashing the web server can mean bringing down the kernel.
> 
> I don't know enough about the Windows kernel's privilege levels to 
> know if that's really dangerous, but it certainly sounds scary to me.


Just read an article in Linux Journal (May 2003) "Kernel Mode Linux" which 
allows a patched kernel, to run user space programs in kernel space.  He 
doesn't say what you can't do, but says he's benchmarked Apache.

Sounds safer, almost to good to be true. 
http://web.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tosh/kml/

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Kyle Accardi