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Re: FreeBSD port (1)
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>
- To: Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:25:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: FreeBSD port (1)
- References: <15657.32324.233973.21851@honolulu.ilog.fr> <200208270832.g7R8WKh23780@dhcp187.sf.frob.com> <15735.18687.31463.590071@honolulu.ilog.fr>
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 02:07:27PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > You can easily implement the Linux sendfile interface using the FreeBSD
> > sendfile system call
>
> Nope, the FreeBSD sendfile works only on sockets, according to the
> documentation.
Linux sendfile isn't guarenteed to work on anything, e.g. Linux
2.5-CURRENT sendfile works also only on sockets.