From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:42:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:42:11 -0500 Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.17]:61451 "EHLO mailout02.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:42:04 -0500 Date: 18 Jan 2001 20:46:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <7u7k1VlXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Is sendfile all that sexy? X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh5 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <200101181001.f0IA11I25258@webber.adilger.net> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) wrote on 18.01.01 in : > if your "normal" usage pattern really is to just move the data without > even looking at it, then you have to ask yourself whether you're doing > something worthwhile in the first place. Web server. FTP server. Network file server. cp. mv. cat. dd. In short, vfs->net (what sendfile already does) and vfs->vfs are probably the most interesting applications, with net->vfs as a possible third. Classical bulk data copy applications. All the other stuff I can think of really does want to look at the data, and we can already handle virtual memory just fine with read/write/mmap. MfG Kai - 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/