Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:03:47 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 |
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:14:05 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
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.
This is not what senfile() does, it sends (to a network socket) a file (from the page cache), nothing more.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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