Ingo Molnar wrote:
- sendfile(). This API mainly failed on #2. It partly failed on #1 too. (couldnt be used in certain types of scenarios so was unintuitive.) splice() fixes this almost completely. - KAIO. It fails on #2 and #3.
I wonder how useful it would be to reimplement sendfile() using splice(), either in glibc or inside the kernel itself? sendfile() does get used a fair bit, but I really doubt that anyone outside of a handful of people on this list actually use splice(). Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
