From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 19 07:11:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16912 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 07:11:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA16906 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 07:11:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@Sarnoff.COM) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA11533; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:10:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:10:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: Julian Elischer cc: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, shocking@bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com Subject: Re: sendfile() API? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG chuck cranor, see the netbsd vm subsystem, since chuck wrote it. sendfile() is a cover for bad vm/os design. I hope to see someone outrun sendfile with a netbsd running chuck's vm and generic system calls. ron Ron Minnich |"Using Windows NT, which is known to have some rminnich@sarnoff.com | failure modes, on a warship is similar to hoping (609)-734-3120 | that luck will be in our favor"- A. Digiorgio ftp://ftp.sarnoff.com/pub/mnfs/www/docs/cluster.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message