Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

[Felix von Leitner]

Thus spake Albert D. Cahalan ([e-mail]):
> Rather than combining open() with sendfile(), it could be combined
> with stat(). Since the syscall would be new anyway, it could skip
> the normal requirement about returning the next free file descriptor
> in favor of returning whatever can be most quickly found.

I don't know how Linux does it, but returning the first free file
descriptor can be implemented as O(1) operation.

Felix