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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:20:30 +0200
From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch 6/12] hold atomic kmaps across generic_file_read
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 08:01:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Solaris 9 (and Solaris 8 with a certain patch) support Linux-style
> sendfile().  Linux 2.5 on the other hand doesn't support sendfile to
> files anymore..

Why got it broken? It was useful for copying and showing the
progress at the same time without touching the own VM.

Regards

Ingo Oeser
-- 
Science is what we can tell a computer. Art is everything else. --- D.E.Knuth
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