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It's the amount of complexity, i.e. the number of things to go wrong. Handling TCP/IP in the kernel requires substantially less complexity than handling HTTP/T
by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
It's the amount of complexity, i.e. the number of things to go wrong.
Handling TCP/IP in the kernel requires substantially less complexity than handling HTTP/TCP/IP.
And even then, there are efforts (GNU Hurd, for instance) to push things like TCP out of the kernel level.