Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> There is a Samba patch as well that makes it sendfile() based. Various
> other projects use it too (phttpd for example), some FTP servers i
> believe, and khttpd and TUX.

At least khttpd uses "do_generic_file_read()", not sendfile per se. I
assume TUX does too. Sendfile itself is mainly only useful from user
space..

                Linus

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