Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:02:02 +0000 (GMT) | From | Ben Mansell <> | Subject | Re: Is sendfile all that sexy? |
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On 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And no, I don't actually hink that sendfile() is all that hot. It was > _very_ easy to implement, and can be considered a 5-minute hack to give > a feature that fit very well in the MM architecture, and that the Apache > folks had already been using on other architectures.
The current sendfile() has the limitation that it can't read data from a socket. Would it be another 5-minute hack to remove this limitation, so you could sendfile between sockets? Now _that_ would be sexy :)
Ben
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