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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: packet driver for uucp
Message-ID: <454@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 00:57:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: astrovax.454
Posted: Fri Sep 28 00:57:43 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 07:30:38 EDT
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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I recall seeing vague references in the uucp documention and a few references
in the uucico source to a kernel packet driver.  Is anybody out there running
a kernel packet driver for uucp? Or does anybody know of someone who has
such a beast?  We are short on cpu cycles and uucico, when it is running,
takes a very noticable chunk of cpu time.  Any way that it can be speeded up
I am in favor of (therefore no religous flames please about why it doesn't
belong in the kernel).  Running characters a few per system call through the
Unix terminal drivers has to be horribly inefficient.  It would seem that it
could be implemented as another "line discipline".  We are running 4.2 BSD.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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