sendfile(2) SF_NOPUSH flag proposal

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 02:53:26AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> This illustrates my thesis that interfaces with the same names
> tend to converge over time.  Another example is select(), which
> Linux initially implemented as updating the timeout struct with
> the time which had elapsed; this was divergents, and broke a
> lot of code, until they relented and fixed it to defacto standard

It hasn't changed.  And trying to change it broke perfectly working
code.