From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 16 22:34:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19744 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:34:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19727 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:33:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA21554; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdb21551; Mon Aug 17 05:26:40 1998 Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:26:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, shocking@bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com Subject: Re: sendfile() API? In-Reply-To: <199808170356.LAA16257@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> 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 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