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From: Lee Chin <leechinus@yahoo.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: "linux, kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Net <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sendfile from sockets
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 00:00:12 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011119080012.75161.qmail@web14303.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011119171653.E6367@krispykreme>

Do I need to do something special to enable sendfile
in the kernel?  It works on a 2.2 kernel, but not on a
2.4 kernel (and this is sendfile in general... not
just sockets)

Thanks
Lee
--- Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > Although the man page says you can sendfile from a
> > socket,I am unable to do so... I can only send
> file
> > from a file, to either a socket or file
> > 
> > Is this a kernel limitation?
> 
> Yes, the manpage needs updating, you can only
> sendfile() from
> something that exists in the pagecache (ie not a
> socket).
> 
> Anton


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-19  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-19  6:08 Lee Chin
2001-11-19  6:16 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-11-19  8:00   ` Lee Chin [this message]
2001-11-21 13:12   ` bert hubert

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