Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:44:51 +0800 From: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendfile() API? Message-ID: <199808170844.QAA17484@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Aug 1998 00:46:05 MST." <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9808170036300.26956-100000@redfish>
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> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > > > any closerr references on this would be greatly appreciated.. > > > > > > > > > > His name was Chuck Cranor - can't think of anything else at this point. > > http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/chuck/ > > Don't see anything there that really deals with this though. > Yup, what triggered that recollection was a discussion that sendfile was too specific, and we needed a far more generalisable interfaces for these sorts of I/O routing requirements. The spectre of multiple warty special-purpose system calls scares me. 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
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