From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 15 20:59:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22454 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@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 UAA22447 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:59:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA04207; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:53:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdRN4203; Wed Dec 16 04:53:15 1998 Message-ID: <36773CB7.52BFA1D7@whistle.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:53:11 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein CC: Oleg Ogurok , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /ports/mbone/speakfreely - can't compile. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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