sendfile(2) SF_NOPUSH flag proposal

[Kelly Yancey]

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 May 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > Igor Sysoev wrote:
> > > > Really ?  I think that on NetBSD, Darwin, and MacOS X I would get:
> > > > -----
> > > > warning: implicit declaration of function `sendfile'
> > >
> > > I think on NetBSD and OpenBSD, a single search-engine query
> > > would show you three experimental implementations, all of
> > > which have the FreeBSD syntax.
> >
> > I did not found any.
>
> Are you using an academically good search engine, or are you
> using a commercial one, like Google and Yahoo?
>

  Are you going to tell us where we can find this academically good search
engine, or are we to play charades?

> I suggest the search terms "sendfile" and "openbsd", or the
> terms "sendfile", "netbsd", "splice".  Even Google finds some
> mailing list chatter about those (the interesting one is by
> Jason Thorpe from Wasabi Systems, and is in Japanese).
>

  Actually that isn't Japanese.  Chinese (traditional) I would guess, but
certainly not Japanese.  Anyway, if you want a less obscure reference, perhaps
the tech-kern mention of splice() with a reference to the USENIX abstract
would have been more useful:
  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/1999/05/07/0008.html

  Kelly

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