Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:    Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
>       One thing about 'sendfile' (and likely 'sendpath') is that
>       current (hammered into running binaries -> unchangeable)
>       syscalls support only up to 2GB files at 32 bit systems.
> 
>       Glibc 2.2(9) at RedHat  <sys/sendfile.h>:
> 
> #ifdef __USE_FILE_OFFSET64
> # error "<sendfile.h> cannot be used with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
> #endif
> 
>       I do admit that doing  sendfile()  on some extremely large
>       file is unlikely, but still...
> 

2 GB isn't really that extremely large these days.  This is an
unpleasant limitation.

        -hpa
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