kernel mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD?

[Alexey Zelkin]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 01:19:45PM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
> On Monday 07 February 2005 10:20, CHOI Junho wrote:
> > Anyone knows about kernel-mode httpd/ftpd for FreeBSD? (just like tux
> >  of linuxI searched several times but failed.
> 
> No there is not.  In my humble opinion it's a *really* bad idea to implement 
> something that vulnarable to external attacks and buffer overflows inside the 
> kernel.  The often claimed performance benefit can as easily be achieved with 
> accept filters (see esp. accf_http(9)) and kqueue(9).  There is really no 
> need to put this into the kernel.

Why not ?  Having small and reliable kernel http server able to handle static
content only and limited functionality, would be useful in many cases.