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 08:41:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:41:45 -0500 Received: from horus.its.uow.edu.au ([130.130.68.25]:32231 "EHLO horus.its.uow.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:41:29 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5B168B.A5CCA889@uow.edu.au> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:47:55 +1100 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mingo@elte.hu CC: Stephen Landamore , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stephen Landamore wrote: > > > >> Sure. But sendfile is not one of the fundamental UNIX operations... > > > > Neither were eg. kernel-based semaphores. So what? Unix wasnt > > > Ehh, that's not correct. HP-UX was the first to implement sendfile(). > > i dont think we disagree. What i was referring to was the 'original' Unix > idea, the 30 years old one, which did not include sendfile() :-) We never > claimed that sendfile() first came up in Linux [that would be a blatant > lie] - and the Linux API itself was indeed influenced by existing > sendfile()/copyfile() interfaces. (at the time Linus implemented > sendfile() there already existed several similar interfaces.) > y'know our pals have patented it? http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05845280__ - 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/