Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6

[Mark Lord]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
>  - sendfile(). This API mainly failed on #2. It partly failed on #1 too.
>    (couldnt be used in certain types of scenarios so was unintuitive.)
>    splice() fixes this almost completely.
>
>  - KAIO. It fails on #2 and #3.

I wonder how useful it would be to reimplement sendfile()
using splice(), either in glibc or inside the kernel itself?

sendfile() does get used a fair bit, but I really doubt that anyone
outside of a handful of people on this list actually use splice().

Cheers
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