Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 02:09:49 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: William Weston <weston@intercosmos.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendfile() questions Message-ID: <200009200909.CAA05368@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:57:20 CDT." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009190916190.10738-100000@tesseract.intercosmos.net>
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>Is it better to put a packet header into an iovec and have sendfile() take >care of it, or to write the header to the socket using writev() (or >something similar) and then use sendfile just for sending the file off the >filesystem? It's better to use header/trailer iovecs with sendfile(). You save a couple of system calls that way. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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