> Here is where I disagree with you, sendfile() is the right answer to
> pushing data to the wire, SGI's solution is not right and adds
> complexity to the kernel where it doesn't need to exist.
>
> For receive and writes to a disk, sendfile() is not the answer.
Why not? I see current sendfile implementation can not do it, but what
is wrong with this? I think that we should extent sendfile to do such
things in future... (Is there any problem with it?)
I have patch that turns sendfile into copyfd, but linus keeps ignoring
it. Any idea why?
Pavel
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