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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
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