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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:44:11 +0100
From: Maxime Henrion <mux@qualys.com>
To: arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Proposal for a new syscall
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	Hello,

While I was writing a network application, I was thinking that it would
be nice to have a syscall that could "bind" two file descriptors, of any
type (socket, file...), a bit like funopen() does in the libc.  Having
such a syscall in the kernel would allow to implement "zero-copy"
wherever it is feasible.

Then, sendfile() would just be a particular case of this syscall, where
the input fd is a file and the output fd is a socket, and it could be
rewritten using it.

Do you think this makes sense and it would be useful to have ?

Just my $0.02,
Maxime
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