Re: [Haskell-cafe] whatever happened to sendFile?

On 2008 Aug 14, at 19:07, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

to me, two of them don't have it, and the third seems to be saying you cannot use it to move data from a file (which is not a pipe) to a socket (which is not a pipe), which is the use-case for sendfile().

Actually, while I'm not sure how Linux does it, on the *BSDs pipes are actually socketpairs. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH