Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:56:07 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131 |
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Hi!
> Here is where I disagree with you, sendfile() is the right answer to > pushing data to the wire, SGI's solution is not right and adds > complexity to the kernel where it doesn't need to exist. > > For receive and writes to a disk, sendfile() is not the answer.
Why not? I see current sendfile implementation can not do it, but what is wrong with this? I think that we should extent sendfile to do such things in future... (Is there any problem with it?)
I have patch that turns sendfile into copyfd, but linus keeps ignoring it. Any idea why?
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