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 17:59:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:59:37 -0500 Received: from chiara.elte.hu ([157.181.150.200]:38412 "HELO chiara.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:59:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 23:59:13 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: To: Dan Hollis Cc: "David S. Miller" , , Subject: Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > > This is not what senfile() does, it sends (to a network socket) a > > file (from the page cache), nothing more. > > Ok in any case, it would be nice to have a generic sendfile() which works > on any fd's - socket or otherwise. it's a bad name in that case. We dont 'send any file' if we in fact are receiving a data stream from a socket and writing it into a file :-) (i think Pavel raised this issue before.) Ingo - 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/