Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:58:51 +0100 (CET) | From | Sasi Peter <> | Subject | Re: Is sendfile all that sexy? |
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On 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The only obvious use for it is file serving, and as high-performance > file serving tends to end up as a kernel module in the end anyway (the > only hold-out is samba, and that's been discussed too), "sendfile()" > really is more a proof of concept than anything else.
No plans for samba to use sendfile? Even better make it a tux-like module? (that would enable Netware-Linux like performance with the standard kernel... would be cool afterall ;)
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