Re: Equivalent of the system call sendfile

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On 26 Nov 2008, at 1:39, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> Perhaps we should provide sendfile in libc, as an appropriate wrapper
> around mmap() and write().

That's probably better than a lot of duplicate implementations in
various pkgsrc patch files.

> On the other hand, perhaps encouraging use of this duplicative and,
> honestly, pretty much dumb API is not something we should do.

The API exists in FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris and applications use it
whether NetBSD supports or not. And I would that it is a good thing
if more 3rd party applications use page loaning because NetBSD
provides a sendfile() library function

        Kind regards

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