Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

Sasi Peter (sape@iq.rulez.org)
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:58:51 +0100 (CET)


On 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The only obvious use for it is file serving, and as high-performance
> file serving tends to end up as a kernel module in the end anyway (the
> only hold-out is samba, and that's been discussed too), "sendfile()"
> really is more a proof of concept than anything else.

No plans for samba to use sendfile? Even better make it a tux-like module?
(that would enable Netware-Linux like performance with the standard
kernel... would be cool afterall ;)

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