[Haskell-cafe] whatever happened to sendFile?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 15, at 9:34, Tony Finch wrote:

> 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.


Hm.  Somehow I missed that.

In any case, the real point is that historically (the socketpair stuff  
goes back to 4.2BSD) pipes were often considered a special case of  
sockets, so documentation referring to pipes might well actually mean  
or include sockets.  Someone will have to inspect the Linux splice()  
implementation to see if it actually works on sockets.

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