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But wouldn't the same issue apply to user-space TCP implementations too? User-space TCP implementations too could have "path-dependent sequence of accidents" wh

But wouldn't the same issue apply to user-space TCP implementations too? User-space TCP implementations too could have "path-dependent sequence of accidents" which a power user might eventually need to figure out?

jeffbee 4y ago
Yes but instead of being a 35-year-old accretion of mistakes, a user-space network stack is likely to be part of a more typical software lifecycle, that gets updated more easily and ultimately replaced. Also such things are dramatically easier to debug.
- loeg 4y ago
  Happily Linux is at most a 32-year old accretion of mistakes (and I'm not completely confident 0.01 even had TCP).
  - jeffbee 4y ago
    Happily Linux is a good name for a fresh new distro.