splice
splice
Posted 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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