RE: Does sendfile() copy extended attributes?

Shaya Potter
2003-12-21T19:45:08Z

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 14:31, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> > I think you read what I wrote the wrong way. Let me rephrase it:
> > How can you know that function does not call an external program to
> > perform its action?
>
> Again, sendfile() is a KERNEL function.

unless you use the syscall macros to do the syscall interrupt yourself,
you are calling the libc wrapper for the system call, not the system
call itself.