2002-06-04 17:31:36

by Benjamin LaHaise

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Subject: Re: sendfile64()?

sendfile64 is in 2.5. A backport to 2.4 has also been ported; we
just need to convince Marcelo to accept it for 2.4.20.

-ben

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 06:36:06PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 05:24:41PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > It does not exist in (32 bit) kernel, mostly because it doesn't
> > make much sense.. Implementing it should be trivial, once
> > somebody can show real meaningfull use for it.
>
> Copy over hard disk images, serving video files (not streams!),
> serving database blobs etc.
>
> Doing this only involving pagecache is not beneficial at all?
>
> I'm not an expert in this area, but this would be my preferred
> way to implement the above.
>
> Regards
>
> Ingo Oeser
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