Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:44:00 -0800 (PST)


On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> There is a Samba patch as well that makes it sendfile() based. Various
> other projects use it too (phttpd for example), some FTP servers i
> believe, and khttpd and TUX.

At least khttpd uses "do_generic_file_read()", not sendfile per se. I
assume TUX does too. Sendfile itself is mainly only useful from user
space..

Linus

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/