From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:57:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:56:53 -0500 Received: from Huntington-Beach.Blue-Labs.org ([208.179.0.198]:59218 "EHLO Huntington-Beach.Blue-Labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:56:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3A67BAEE.519C777F@linux.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:56:30 +0000 From: David Ford Organization: Blue Labs Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-pre8 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dean gaudet CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]] In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org dean gaudet wrote: > the reason, gag puke, is for doing things such as sending "activity" > progress -- like a line at a time or whatever to indicate that the CGI is > there and still working. I understand the gagging on this and generally I agree. I do appreciate having the ability to do this however. In some very infrequent cases it is nice to have. Perhaps a distinguished method to accomplish this can be created so only this method does this while all others become more efficient and data transfer? -d -- ..NOTICE fwd: fwd: fwd: type emails will be deleted automatically. "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/