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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 05:50:20 -0400
From: Dan Maas <dmaas@maasdigital.com>
To: davem@redhat.com
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Subject: Re: sendfile(2) behaviour has changed?
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>> It really needs a new interface for recvfile/copyfile/whatever
>> anyway, as you can only specify an off_t for the from fd at
>> present.
>   
> Ummm, you can use lseek() on the 'to' fd perhaps?

Wouldn't that be non-atomic and therefore likely to cause problems
with concurrent writes?

Regards,
Dan
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