On 30-Oct-06, at 10:49 AM, Dave Viner wrote:
I'm trying to understand the full effect of the EnableSendfile directive. If I set the directive to 'Off', what happens when I invoke $r->sendfile($myfile) ??My hope is that the $r->sendfile will simply use mechanism other than sendfile() to read/send the given file (maybe allocate a buffer, read in file to buffer, send buffer, repeat until file is eof()... or something similar). But I've looked in the source, but I can't seem to convince myself that this will actually happen
$r->sendfile($myfile) ends up calling ap_send_fd()ap_send_fd() checks the setting of EnableSendfile, and if it's on AND APR_HAS_SENDFILE was detected,
it then calls apr_file_open with the APR_SENDFILE_ENABLED flag See here http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/group__apr__file__io.html#ga3But it's basically an advisory flag, saying please try and use sendfile(), but nothing is guaranteed. In any case, it will always fallback to something sane, sending the file one way or another.
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