[Haskell-cafe] whatever happened to sendFile?
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Thu Aug 14 20:17:24 EDT 2008
On 2008 Aug 14, at 19:07, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> to me, two of them don't have it, and the third seems to be
> saying you cannot use it to move data from a file (which is
> not a pipe) to a socket (which is not a pipe), which is the
> use-case for sendfile().
Actually, while I'm not sure how Linux does it, on the *BSDs pipes are
actually socketpairs.
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