14 Aug
2008
14 Aug
'08
6:28 a.m.
"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH"
On 2008 Aug 13, at 18:25, Jason Dusek wrote:
Can you say more about this? I assume that sending static images back and forth is a good fit for sendfile().
Your previously stated use case sounds like a good fit. I can easily imagine sendfile() implementations starving other network operations, though (and IIRC linux's early sendfile() implementation did so). It's essentially an optimization specific to web servers.
Isn't it superseeded by splice(2) nowadays? -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants