RE: tmpfs + sendfile bug ?

Pierre Etchemaite (petchema@concept-micro.com)
Tue, 22 May 2001 00:44:56 +0200 (CEST)


On 21-May-2001 David Schwartz wrote:
>
>> Any idea ?
>
> Looks like a bug in the program. If 'sendfile' returns 'EINVAL', that
means
> you can't use 'sendfile' to send this particular file, and should default to
> read/write or mmap/write. If this program doesn't, it doesn't understand
> Linux's 'sendfile' semantics.

Agreed, I came up to the same conclusion. Applications shouldn't assume that
sendfile will always work, and be ready to fall back to the traditional DIY
way of sending data.

I just downloaded more recent sources of proftpd (1.2.2rc2), and it looks
fixed, already... Time to upgrade :)

Regards,
Pierre.

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