On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:18:50AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
[...] The point is that a write() is only used if some sort of
dynamic data is generated on the fly.
There are exsiting applications out there that use mmap+write
(caching the maps), it would be nice for the authors of these not to
have to _require_ non-portable sendfile semantics for the best
performance.
--cw
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