Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

From: Peter Samuelson (peter@cadcamlab.org)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 07:17:37 EST


[Rogier Wolff]
> I'd prefer an interface that says "copy this fd to that one, and
> optimize that if you can".

So do exactly that in libc.

  sendfile () {
    if (sys_sendfile() == -1)
      return (errno == EINVAL) ? do_slow_sendfile() : -1;
    return 0;
  }

Peter
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