Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> La Monte H.P. Yarroll writes:
>  > Matt D. Robinson writes:
>  >  > Is there any way to add in the capability to _replace_ TCP with
>  >  > your own, so you can use your own layer?
> 
> ABSOLUTELY NOT!
> 
> And I will never in my lifetime allow such a facility to be added to
> the Linux kernel.
> 
> This allows people to make proprietary implementations of TCP under
> Linux.  And we don't want this just as we don't want to add a way to
> allow someone to do a proprietary Linux VM.

Then again, maybe someone has a reason to use a different
TCP stack, ie to support something like a high-availiblity stack
between two different machines...

Why would you be scared of a proprietary  TCP stack?  If Open Source
is so much better (and I believe it is), then there would be nothing
to lose.  And if the new stack helped a small subset of people who would
otherwise have an even sorrier life implementing it on some other
platform, then that is better, right?


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