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, 4 Jun 2002 13:09:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:09:47 -0400 Received: from tom.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de ([134.109.132.38]:41991 "EHLO tom.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:09:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 18:36:06 +0200 From: Ingo Oeser To: Matti Aarnio Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sendfile64()? Message-ID: <20020604183606.P681@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> In-Reply-To: <200205311553.g4VFrP300813@mail.pronto.tv> <20020604135805.GB9641@wiget.koelner.com.pl> <20020604172441.Q18899@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 05:24:41PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > It does not exist in (32 bit) kernel, mostly because it doesn't > make much sense.. Implementing it should be trivial, once > somebody can show real meaningfull use for it. Copy over hard disk images, serving video files (not streams!), serving database blobs etc. Doing this only involving pagecache is not beneficial at all? I'm not an expert in this area, but this would be my preferred way to implement the above. Regards Ingo Oeser -- Science is what we can tell a computer. Art is everything else. --- D.E.Knuth