Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:25:08 +0200 | From | bert hubert <> | Subject | Re: sendfile(2) behaviour has changed ? |
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 02:59:35AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > It has only been intended for output to a TCP stream socket. > > To be honest, I'm not so sure about this.
The old manpage did not state this properly. In November 2000 I tried to use sendfile as recvfile and discovered that it did not work. The ensuing discussion led to the modification of the manpage to state that it would only write to a socket and only read from a pagecache backed fd.
Regards,
bert hubert
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