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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:50:03 -0700 (PDT)
To: Jesse S Sipprell <jss@inflicted.net>
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        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()
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Jesse S Sipprell writes:
 > On error, -1 is returned in the usual fashion and offset is purported to be
 > updated to point to the next byte following the last one sent.
 > 
 > Will the zerocopy patches break this?

No, they should not.

Later,
David S. Miller
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