Re: sendfile64?

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:51:24 +1300


Why isn't there a sendfile64?

because nobody has implemented on -- arguably it's not needed; the
different between:

sendfile64(...)

and

while(blah){
sendfile( ... 1G or so ...)
}

probably won't be detectable anyhow. I see no reason why sendfile64
should be purely user-space (then again, I see no reason why not to
extend the kernel API as is, but last time I tested it is was busted
WRT signals so I would rather that be fixed before further
proliferation there).

--cw
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