Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:37:35 +0200 | | From | "Stephen R. van den Berg" <> | | Subject | Re: Turning sendfile into copyfd | |
Pavel Machek wrote:
>I should probably provide some way to specify 'copy until EOF'
>(count==0?).
Please keep count==0 to specify zero bytes. Use something like count==-1
for copy till EOF.
> Also, if I end up copying more than 4G of data, what
>value should I return? This needs to be solved.
Copy 2GB-PAGE_SIZE, then return, set errno to EAGAIN or something.
If we're copying more than 2GB, then the overhead of putting a loop
on it in userspace is negligible.
--
Sincerely, srb@cuci.nl
Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
"I don't like this word bomb. It is not a bomb, it is a device,
which explodes." French Ambassador about the atomic tests.
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