Re: sendfile() documentation
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
16 Dec 1998 20:11:25 GMT
In article <19981216201600.B21869@math.fu-berlin.de>,
Felix von Leitner <leitner@math.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>Thus spake Pawel Krawczyk (kravietz@tau.ceti.com.pl):
>> BTW has anynone tried to actually use sendfile() in real world? I.e. in
>> Apache or other daemons that tend to transfer big amounts of data.
>
>To be honest, I don't understand why anyone would want to use it.
>If I use sendfile, I need to open a new process/thread for every
>connection, right?
No. sendfile() was designed to do the right thing wrt nonblocking
writes, so you can have a select() loop with sendfile() the same way
you'd have it with read()+write().
Linus
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