Igor Sysoev wrote this message on Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:31 +0300:
> I think it can done in the following way - a socket should have flag
> that says that sendfile() had started the reading a page.
layer violation... how do you know that the fd is a socket?
> select()/poll()/kevent() should check this flag before the checking
> a socket buffer space. When the page had been read this flag is reset.
So, what about using sendfile on a pipe? are you going to teach sendfile
how to interact with pipe's too? What about other fd types?
If you made this a fd transparent operation then I would agree with
it.
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