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To: William Weston <weston@intercosmos.com>
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Subject: Re: sendfile() questions 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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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.


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