[Haskell-cafe] whatever happened to sendFile?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 14, at 2:28, Ketil Malde wrote:
> "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> writes:
>> Your previously stated use case sounds like a good fit.  I can easily
>> imagine sendfile() implementations starving other network operations,
>> though (and IIRC linux's early sendfile() implementation did so).
>> It's essentially an optimization specific to web servers.
>
> Isn't it superseeded by splice(2) nowadays?


Most Unixen have some version of sendfile(); how portable is  
splice()?  (Of course, there could be a system-dependent mapping; one  
is needed for Windows already.)

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