Re: Equivalent of the system call sendfile

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:11:58PM -0800, kamel derouiche wrote:
> Hi,,
> 
> Gnu / Linux offers the system call sendfile (sys /
> sendfile.h), what is that there is a meme
> thing(matter) in netbsd?

"meme thing"? I don't understand?

But as for sendfile() - due to page loaning, we have about the same
performance for normal write() and avoid a long-time loop inside the
kernel. Details are in our mailing list archives - search for
UBC, UVM, "page loading" and / or "sendfile".

        -is