Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:47:55 +1100 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stephen Landamore wrote: > > > >> Sure. But sendfile is not one of the fundamental UNIX operations... > > > > Neither were eg. kernel-based semaphores. So what? Unix wasnt > > > Ehh, that's not correct. HP-UX was the first to implement sendfile(). > > i dont think we disagree. What i was referring to was the 'original' Unix > idea, the 30 years old one, which did not include sendfile() :-) We never > claimed that sendfile() first came up in Linux [that would be a blatant > lie] - and the Linux API itself was indeed influenced by existing > sendfile()/copyfile() interfaces. (at the time Linus implemented > sendfile() there already existed several similar interfaces.) >
y'know our pals have patented it?
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