Re: PATCH: Raw device IO for 2.1.131

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:42:29 -0800 (PST)

On 16-Dec-98 David S. Miller wrote:
> Just one situation I want clarified, do you think we'll be able to fit
> into our framework a way to (for example) get at the user's
> application level headers during a write (ie. http header, then the
> data)?

What's the problem with setting up a mapping so that the HTTP header is on the
tail of a page which butts up to the start of the mmaped file you want to
write? You can just sendfile the lot in one go.

J

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