Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:31:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:31:35 -0400 Received: from to-velocet.redhat.com ([216.138.202.10]:8694 "EHLO touchme.toronto.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:31:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:31:35 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: Ingo Oeser Cc: Matti Aarnio , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sendfile64()? Message-ID: <20020604133135.B9111@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200205311553.g4VFrP300813@mail.pronto.tv> <20020604135805.GB9641@wiget.koelner.com.pl> <20020604172441.Q18899@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20020604183606.P681@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > -- > Science is what we can tell a computer. Art is everything else. --- D.E.Knuth > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- "You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/