Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:14:05 -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, Ingo Molnar wrote: > :-) I think sendfile() should also have its logical extensions: > receivefile(). I dont know how the HPUX implementation works, but in > Linux, right now it's only possible to sendfile() from a file to a socket. > The logical extension of this is to allow socket->file IO and file->file, > socket->socket IO as well. (the later one could be interesting for things > like web proxies.)
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.
-Dan
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