Okay, first thanks for your interest and time to reply to my
suggestion =)
I think the arguments listed in this e-mail are probably enough
to dismiss the idea.
Have a nice weekend!
Cheers,
Emil
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:10:01AM +0100, Michael Felt via curl-library wrote:
> a) Long before sendfi
a) Long before sendfile() there was/is send_file() in the UNIX world.
b) just read in the linux man pages that sendfile() is limited to 2GB
file transfers
c) imho - too much complexity for read/write activity when one medium
(network) is likely much slower (or faster) than another medium - or
e
Emil Engler wrote:
However implementing this syscall also raises some problems, including
limited support. AFAIK only Linux and FreeBSD support this syscall
(maybe even macOS as it inherited a lot from FreeBSD).
FYI, Windows has a similar 'TransmitFile()' function:
https://docs.microsoft.co
Emil Engler via curl-library wrote:
> Hello curl-library,
> I recently thought about implementing the syscall sendfile(2) into
> libcurl to speed up downloads to a file. For those of you who don't
> know what it is:
"downloads to a file"? Meaning socket => regular file?
I hope I understand you c
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021, Emil Engler via curl-library wrote:
I recently thought about implementing the syscall sendfile(2) into
libcurl to speed up downloads to a file.
An interesting idea, but one full of caveats.
sendfile would only work (effectively) for clear-text downloads using TCP (ie
not
> Am 25.02.2021 um 12:10 schrieb Emil Engler via curl-library
> :
> (maybe even macOS as it inherited a lot from FreeBSD).
From the man page:
The sendfile() system call first appeared in Darwin 9.0 (Mac OS X version 10.5)
.
Sincerely
Christian
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Hello curl-library,
I recently thought about implementing the syscall sendfile(2) into
libcurl to speed up downloads to a file. For those of you who don't
know what it is:
sendfile() copies data between one file descriptor and another.
Because this copying is done within the kernel, sendfile() is
