Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!
> > And no, I don't actually hink that sendfile() is all that hot. It was
> > _very_ easy to implement, and can be considered a 5-minute hack to give
> > a feature that fit very well in the MM architecture, and that the Apache
> > folks had already been using on other architectures.
> 
> The current sendfile() has the limitation that it can't read data from
> a socket. Would it be another 5-minute hack to remove this limitation, so
> you could sendfile between sockets? Now _that_ would be sexy :)

I had patch to do that. (Unoptimized, of course)

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