From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: matti.aarnio@zmailer.org, zilvinas@gemtek.lt,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sendfile(2) behaviour has changed ?
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:25:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021016102508.GA7275@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021016.025935.132073102.davem@redhat.com>
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 02:59:35AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> It has only been intended for output to a TCP stream socket.
>
> To be honest, I'm not so sure about this.
The old manpage did not state this properly. In November 2000 I tried to use
sendfile as recvfile and discovered that it did not work. The ensuing
discussion led to the modification of the manpage to state that it would
only write to a socket and only read from a pagecache backed fd.
Regards,
bert hubert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-16 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-16 8:49 Zilvinas Valinskas
2002-10-16 9:10 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-10-16 9:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-16 10:25 ` bert hubert [this message]
2002-10-17 20:51 ` James Antill
2002-10-17 22:41 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-17 23:23 ` James Antill
2002-10-20 9:50 sendfile(2) behaviour has changed? Dan Maas
2002-10-24 22:37 ` Jamie Lokier
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