I had a look at this a couple of days ago.
> where can I get docs on sendfile (what it is, how it's used,
> where it is....)
It seems that it's not in libc yet, so it's not useable (note - I haven't
checked the latest latest libc... this was about 3 weeks ago or so)
> Couldn't find it seriously anywhere in full grep of kernel source
> tree.... just some references.... is it glibc-2.1 or something?
Have a look at mm/filemap.c -
asmlinkage ssize_t sys_sendfile(int out_fd, int in_fd, off_t *offset,
size_t count)
{
Oskar
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