Subject: Re: sendfile(2) syscall
To: Valentine Zaretsky <zaretsky@apex.dp.ua>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/04/2003 15:19:31
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:07:41AM +0200, Valentine Zaretsky wrote:
> I have a question about zero-copy file sending: How hard it would to
> implement sendfile(2) system call similar to FreeBSD's one?
NetBSD already has the necessary zero-copy infrastructure; implementing
sendfile(2) would not be hard at all (though none of the FreeBSD code
could be used, since NetBSD's VM system is totally different).
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>