Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:58:28 -0800 (PST) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 |
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > Just extend sendfile to allow any fd to any fd. sendfile already > does file->socket and file->file. It only needs to be extended to > do socket->file. > This is not what senfile() does, it sends (to a network socket) a > file (from the page cache), nothing more.
Ok in any case, it would be nice to have a generic sendfile() which works on any fd's - socket or otherwise.
What sort of sendfile() behaviour is defined with select()? Can it be asynchronous?
-Dan
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