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From: Pierre Etchemaite <petchema@concept-micro.com>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: tmpfs + sendfile bug ?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 00:44:56 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20010522004456.petchema@concept-micro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKCECOPDAA.davids@webmaster.com>


On 21-May-2001 David Schwartz wrote:
> 
>> Any idea ?
> 
>       Looks like a bug in the program. If 'sendfile' returns 'EINVAL', that
means
> you can't use 'sendfile' to send this particular file, and should default to
> read/write or mmap/write. If this program doesn't, it doesn't understand
> Linux's 'sendfile' semantics.

Agreed, I came up to the same conclusion. Applications shouldn't assume that
sendfile will always work, and be ready to fall back to the traditional DIY
way of sending data.

I just downloaded more recent sources of proftpd (1.2.2rc2), and it looks
fixed, already... Time to upgrade :)

Regards,
Pierre.





      reply	other threads:[~2001-05-21 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-21 16:35 tmpfs + sendfile bug ? Pierre Etchemaite
2001-05-21 16:57 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-05-21 22:01   ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]   ` <200105212201.PAA17247@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-05-22  6:50     ` Christoph Rohland
2001-05-21 18:49 ` David Schwartz
2001-05-21 22:44   ` Pierre Etchemaite [this message]

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