Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Is sendfile all that sexy? | Date | 15 Jan 2001 12:17:59 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20010115173607.S25659@mea-ext.zmailer.org> By author: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > One thing about 'sendfile' (and likely 'sendpath') is that > current (hammered into running binaries -> unchangeable) > syscalls support only up to 2GB files at 32 bit systems. > > Glibc 2.2(9) at RedHat <sys/sendfile.h>: > > #ifdef __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 > # error "<sendfile.h> cannot be used with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" > #endif > > I do admit that doing sendfile() on some extremely large > file is unlikely, but still... >
2 GB isn't really that extremely large these days. This is an unpleasant limitation.
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