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   From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
   Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:50:36 -0200 (BRST)

   On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
   
   > The thing is, I'm personally very suspicious of the "features for that
   > exclusive 0.1%" mentality.
   
   Then why do we have sendfile(), or that idiotic sys_readahead() ?

Sending files over sockets are %99 of what most network servers are
actually doing today, it is much more than 0.1% :-)
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