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SubjectRe: [PATCH] generic_file_sendpage
>> I don't know if we want to add this feature, really.  It's such a
>> specialised thing.
>
>With union mount and cowlink, there are two users already. cp(1)
>could use it as well, even if the improvement is quite minimal.

FTP PUT could use this too - currently, only FTPGETs can use sendfile because
the target had to be a socket.
(With FTP PUT, the src is a sock, dst is a filedescriptor.)


Jan Engelhardt
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