Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:13:08 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] generic_file_sendpage |
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>> 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.)
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