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SubjectRe: sendfile() documentation
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Felix von Leitner wrote:

> The reason to use sendfile would be to save the context switches, so I
> don't want my select to return all the time, right?

I don't know that sendfile is so much intended to save context switches
as it is to obviate unnecessary copying from kernal space to user space
and back down to the kernel again. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

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