From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sendfile64()?
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:31:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020604133135.B9111@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205311553.g4VFrP300813@mail.pronto.tv> <20020604135805.GB9641@wiget.koelner.com.pl> <20020604172441.Q18899@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20020604183606.P681@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
sendfile64 is in 2.5. A backport to 2.4 has also been ported; we
just need to convince Marcelo to accept it for 2.4.20.
-ben
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 06:36:06PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 05:24:41PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > It does not exist in (32 bit) kernel, mostly because it doesn't
> > make much sense.. Implementing it should be trivial, once
> > somebody can show real meaningfull use for it.
>
> Copy over hard disk images, serving video files (not streams!),
> serving database blobs etc.
>
> Doing this only involving pagecache is not beneficial at all?
>
> I'm not an expert in this area, but this would be my preferred
> way to implement the above.
>
> Regards
>
> Ingo Oeser
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-04 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-31 15:53 sendfile64()? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-05-31 16:28 ` sendfile64()? Mark Mielke
2002-06-04 13:58 ` sendfile64()? Artur Frysiak
2002-06-04 14:24 ` sendfile64()? Matti Aarnio
2002-06-04 16:36 ` sendfile64()? Ingo Oeser
2002-06-04 17:31 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
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2001-02-20 0:55 sendfile64? Felix von Leitner
2001-02-20 1:51 ` sendfile64? Chris Wedgwood
2001-02-20 10:53 ` sendfile64? Jakub Jelinek
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