Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 17:03:47 EST


   Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:14:05 -0800 (PST)
   From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>

   Just extend sendfile to allow any fd to any fd. sendfile already
   does file->socket and file->file. It only needs to be extended to
   do socket->file.

This is not what senfile() does, it sends (to a network socket) a
file (from the page cache), nothing more.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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