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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:16:58 -0800
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Limit sendfile() to 2^31-PAGE_CACHE_SIZE bytes without
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, this patch looks ok, if it's confirmed to unbreak apache.

Yes, sounds reasonable.  But I don't think that, as Peter suggested in
another mail, that glibc should automatically wrap the syscall to
provide support for  larger sizes.  The caller probably should know when
a transfer was cut short.

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