Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

[Dan Hollis]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
>    Just extend sendfile to allow any fd to any fd. sendfile already
>    does file->socket and file->file. It only needs to be extended to
>    do socket->file.
> This is not what senfile() does, it sends (to a network socket) a
> file (from the page cache), nothing more.

Ok in any case, it would be nice to have a generic sendfile() which works
on any fd's - socket or otherwise.

What sort of sendfile() behaviour is defined with select()? Can it be
asynchronous?

-Dan