On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Troels Walsted Hansen wrote:
>
> > >From: David S. Miller
> > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
> > > Well, that was true when the thing was written, but whether anybody
> > _uses_
> > > it any more, I don't know. Tux gets the same effect on its own, and
> > I
> > > don't know if Apache defaults to using sendfile or not.
> > >
> > >Samba uses it by default, that I know for sure :-)
> >
> > I wish... Neither Samba 2.2.2 nor the bleeding edge 3.0alpha11 includes
> > the word "sendfile" in the source at least. :( Wonder why the sendfile
> > patches where never merged...
>
> The only real-world source I've noticed actually using sendfile() are some
> of the better ftp daemons (such as vsftpd).
And XMail :)
- Davide
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