Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 19:30:26 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru> Cc: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu> Subject: Re: Update: Debox sendfile modifications Message-ID: <20031109033026.GF558@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0311051208160.3103-100000@is.park.rambler.ru> References: <20031105022737.J1370@odysseus.silby.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0311051208160.3103-100000@is.park.rambler.ru>
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Igor Sysoev wrote this message on Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:31 +0300:
> I think it can done in the following way - a socket should have flag
> that says that sendfile() had started the reading a page.
layer violation... how do you know that the fd is a socket?
> select()/poll()/kevent() should check this flag before the checking
> a socket buffer space. When the page had been read this flag is reset.
So, what about using sendfile on a pipe? are you going to teach sendfile
how to interact with pipe's too? What about other fd types?
If you made this a fd transparent operation then I would agree with
it.
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