From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 17 01:46:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA08136 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 01:46:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com [157.147.224.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA08123 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 01:46:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shocking@ariadne.prth.tensor.pgs.com) Received: from ariadne.tensor.pgs.com (ariadne [157.147.227.36]) by bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA04099; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:44:12 +0800 (WST) Received: from ariadne by ariadne.tensor.pgs.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA17484; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:44:51 +0800 Message-Id: <199808170844.QAA17484@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Marc Slemko cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendfile() API? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Aug 1998 00:46:05 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:44:51 +0800 From: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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