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splicesplicePosted Dec 22, 2005 12:04 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: splice by Ross Parent article: Some new system calls
Plus, Linus has been heard to say that he now believes sendfile() to have been a mistake. This doesn't mean it will go away of course (it's a syscall, it's immortal) but if sendfile() can be implemented in terms of splice(), so much the better!
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splice Posted Dec 23, 2005 7:17 UTC (Fri) by thedevil (subscriber, #32913) [Link] Ah, now I looked at the Linux manpage of sendfile and I understand a bitbetter. BSD sendfile is _much_ more convenient; it is zero copy, the special case of count = 0 means "all the data there is", and it has additional argument that makes it possible to string multiple buffers a la sendmsg. I have assumed the Linux one was a clone, while in fact the splice proposal looks more like BSD sendfile.
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