sendfile(2) SF_NOPUSH flag proposal

[Marc Slemko]

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Igor Sysoev wrote:

> No, I do want these flags because they resolve the problem of partially
> filled packets.  I believe that this problem can be solved without a fixing
> the sendfile() implementation.

As people have said a few times now, making an API change to work
around a bug in the implementation of sendfile() simply doesn't
make any sense, especially when there are other workarounds you
can use until it is fixed that impose a very low overhead.  No one
is saying it can't be solved without fixing sendfile(), we are just
saying it _shouldn't_ be because any API changes will be around for
a very long time.