14 Aug
2008
14 Aug
'08
4:26 a.m.
On 14 Aug 2008, at 10:47 am, John Meacham wrote:
There isn't a standard unix sendfile, while a few different ones have functions called 'sendfile', they have different meanings/prototypes in general.
For example, I'm typing this on an Intel Mac running Mac OS 10.5.4, and 'man sendfile' shows sendfile -- send a file to a socket and claims that it is checked runtime error if the destination is anything but a socket. It looks as though file -> socket is the only moderately portable case, and of course systems without can fake it by a sequence of reads and writes.