Re: sendfile() documentation

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:36:35 -0500

According to Linus Torvalds:
> 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().

Would you mean "the right thing wrt nonblocking _reads_", by any chance?

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