From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:21:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:21:09 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:3463 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:21:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:03:47 -0800 Message-Id: <200101092203.OAA05934@pizda.ninka.net> From: "David S. Miller" To: goemon@anime.net CC: mingo@elte.hu, stephenl@zeus.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: (message from Dan Hollis on Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:14:05 -0800 (PST)) Subject: Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:14:05 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Hollis Just extend sendfile to allow any fd to any fd. sendfile already does file->socket and file->file. It only needs to be extended to do socket->file. This is not what senfile() does, it sends (to a network socket) a file (from the page cache), nothing more. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/