[Haskell-cafe] whatever happened to sendFile?

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>
> Actually, while I'm not sure how Linux does it, on the *BSDs pipes are
> actually socketpairs.

Not any more. FreeBSD replaced the socketpair implementation with a faster
one in 1996 and OpenBSD imported it soon after. NetBSD imported it in
2001 and Mac OS X in 10.4 (2005). Dragonfly BSD forked from FreeBSD after
the new pipe code was introduced.

Tony.
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