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

On 14 Aug 2008, at 6:28 pm, Ketil Malde wrote:

Isn't [sendfile()] superseeded by splice(2) nowadays?

Solaris 10: f% man splice No manual entry for splice Mac OS X 10.5.4 m% man splice No manual entry for splice Linux 2.6.23... o% man splice .......... one of the descriptors MUST refer to a pipe. So of the three tolerably current "UNIX" systems available 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().