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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/ftpd ftpd.c 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:34:54PM -0800, Dan Moschuk wrote:
>>   Modified files:
>>     libexec/ftpd         ftpd.c 
>>   Log:
>>   In send_data(), use sendfile() instead of the mmap() algorithm.
>
>Rather than spend so much time on libexec/ftpd, you should suggest
>changes to NetBSD's ftpd.  There's is very full featured, and there is an
>effort to abandon ours for theirs.

   Last I heard, NetBSD's version didn't have IPv6 support, which is an
important part of ours, and of course they don't have sendfile().

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
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