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    SubjectRe: Is sendfile all that sexy?

    On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

    > > There is a Samba patch as well that makes it sendfile() based. Various
    > > other projects use it too (phttpd for example), some FTP servers i
    > > believe, and khttpd and TUX.
    >
    > At least khttpd uses "do_generic_file_read()", not sendfile per se. I
    > assume TUX does too. Sendfile itself is mainly only useful from user
    > space..

    yes, you are right. TUX does it mainly to avoid some of the user-space
    interfacing overhead present in sys_sendfile(), and to be able to control
    packet boundaries. (ie. to have or not have the MSG_MORE flag). So TUX is
    using its own sock_send_actor and own read_descriptor.

    Ingo

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