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On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 06:16:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> This is going to be in 2.2, btw. The changes are so small and so obviously
> have to work that it would be ridiculous not to have this - the only
> question is whether I'll try to make it a "copyfd()" system call instead,
> falling back on read+write when I can't use the page cache directly. I
> suspect I won't.
I think it would be nice if the libc wrapper for this system call did fall
back to read+write if sendfile(2) returned an error indicating that it could
not send the file. That is assuming you dont want to do it in the kernel.
Jim
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