Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 02 Mar 2002 21:34:52 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: LFS Support for Sendfile |
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Dan Maas wrote: > > > [sendfile(2)] as defined does not support LFS. > > > > I wonder does it really need to? I mean, a loop calling sendfile for > > 2GB (or whatever) at a time is almost as good, if not better in some > > ways. > > The 'count' parameter is not the problem, it's the 'offset'. You can't send > any data beyond 2GB from the beginning of the file... > > And in fact just two days ago I was in a situation where this would have > been desirable - I was sending parts of a captured DV video stream (the file > was 6GB)... >
We need a sendfile64() system call. It's really simple, but nobody did it.
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