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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Zero copy transmit
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:17:37 +0100
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:41:27PM -0500, Steve Modica wrote:
> At issue is really application capture and customer adoption.  There are
> tons of apps and lots of engineers that know socket operations and 
> write/writev.  Asking all ISVs to recode for linux would leave them with 
> two separate APIs to deal with. They would have send/sendto or 
> write/writev on Solaris, HPUX and whatever else, and linux would have 
> sendfile.

Solaris and HPUX have sendfile, the HPUX one has a slightly different
API, the Solaris one is modelled after Linux.