Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:26:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, shocking@bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com Subject: Re: sendfile() API? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980816222612.8085A-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199808170356.LAA16257@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>
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any closerr references on this would be greatly appreciated.. On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > There was a discussion a while ago about how sendfile (as implemented on NT) > was a BadThing(tm). One guy came up with what can only be described as an I/O > interpreter, where the kernel provides a facility such that you can load up a > description of what you want done with the data. His first name was Chuck, and > he came up with quite an interesting thesis, implementing his code under > NetBSD. The problem is that sendfile is unsufficiently general, and probably > wont cope with things like network type changes, et cetera. > > > Stephen > -- > The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. > > "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce > the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know > this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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