On 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The only obvious use for it is file serving, and as high-performance
> file serving tends to end up as a kernel module in the end anyway (the
> only hold-out is samba, and that's been discussed too), "sendfile()"
> really is more a proof of concept than anything else.
No plans for samba to use sendfile? Even better make it a tux-like module?
(that would enable Netware-Linux like performance with the standard
kernel... would be cool afterall ;)
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