Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 23:59:13 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 |
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > This is not what senfile() does, it sends (to a network socket) a > > file (from the page cache), nothing more. > > Ok in any case, it would be nice to have a generic sendfile() which works > on any fd's - socket or otherwise.
it's a bad name in that case. We dont 'send any file' if we in fact are receiving a data stream from a socket and writing it into a file :-)
(i think Pavel raised this issue before.)
Ingo
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