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Date:      Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:26:40 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com>
Subject:   Re: vm balance
Message-ID:  <3ADDCE50.132B9F5D@elischer.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010418111539.2462G-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> As I indicated in my follow-up mail, the statement about seeking was
> incorrect, that is a property of the open file structure; I believe the
> remainder still holds true. When was the last time you tried mmap'ing or
> seeking on the socket?  A socket represents a buffered data stream which
> does not allow arbitrary read/write operations at arbitrary offsets.

Actually there have been times when I did want to mmap a datastream..
I think a datastream mapped into a user buffer-space is one of the 
possible 0-copy methods people sometimes mention.


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