Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

[David Lang]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Val Henson wrote:

> There is a use for an optimized socket->socket transfer - proxying
> high speed TCP connections.  It would be exciting if the zerocopy
> networking framework led to a decent socket->socket transfer.

if you are proxying connextions you should really be looking at what data
you pass through your proxy.

now replay proxying with routing and I would agree with you (but I'll bet
this is handled in the kernel IP stack anyway)

David Lang