On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:05:46PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> I agree that the same functionality can be achieved. However there are 
> three things that I see in favor of having a sendfile() or a splice().

I certainly agree that we should have splice().

sendfile() is an API botch.  We should not propagate it; nor should we
mistake an _asynchronous_ file splicer for a _synchronous_ special-purpose
hack.

Thor