[OpenAFS-devel] Rx over TCP to solve some NAT & Firewall issues?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Ken Hornstein wrote:

> >> Remind me again how many damn #ifdefs are in process.s? :-)
> >
> >Maintaining something which is already split implementations per platform
> >is different than willingly adding more of the same.
>
> I guess my point that given the architecture dependencies already in AFS,
> we could argue whether or not a "generic" fileserver exists today.  I

pthreads: not ours
rx userlevel: not overly system-specific
namei: generic

pretty bland stuff

> don't see a huge problem with changing the way we do FD management
> to a more efficient per-platform system.  And if it's all hidden inside
> LWP (since that's what seems to handle FDs today; I don't see any calls to
> select() or poll() in the fileserver), does it really matter?

it's udp. there's a socket.