Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:53:11 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: Oleg Ogurok <oleg@ogurok.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /ports/mbone/speakfreely - can't compile. Message-ID: <36773CB7.52BFA1D7@whistle.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812152014200.27793-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > this should be posted to ports@freebsd.org, however > > David G recently added a syscall to 3.0, 'sendfile' the point of it is to > send a file through a socket with as little overhead as possible. > > This is really nifty but certain newer interfaces for freebsd syscalls and > freebsd specific library calls are really going to cause C namespace > problems. > > I wish someone would take this into consideration when adding new > functionality. > The name for this syscall was decided by HP in HPUX It has been copied by linux, BSD and soon SUN and SGI. I suggest that any programs on the net that use 'sendfile' as a symbol will very rapidly be changed to not do so... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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