They have it because they heard Linux had it and they wanted to do
well in the next round of Mindcraft-like benchmarks. (sendfile() that is)
Jonathan
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (I also had one person point out that BSD's have the notion of TCP_NOPUSH,
> which does almost what TCP_CORK does under Linux, except it doesn't seem
> to have the notion of uncorking - you can turn NOPUSH off, but apparently
> it doesn't affect queued packets. This makes it even less clear why they
> have the ugly sendfile)
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