On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > If you are talking about the Linux syscall sendfile() then it is
> > probably not a good idea. As far I can tell it requires Squid to block
> > until the sendfile() call has completed, and is only implemented on
> > Linux.
>
> FreeBSD has a similar syscall. You can use the FreeBSD one in non-blocking
> mode if you wished, although I haven't tried it in non-blocking mode just
> yet.
HP-UX also implements a non-blocking mode for sendfile(). I'm curious
to know how well it would work, but I don't really have a lot of coding
skill. Does anybody else have any experience w/ it?
I saw sendfile implemented in a couple new code trees and I *heard* that
cdrom.com hacked their FTP server to use it.
I just read an assertion on the linux-kernel mailing list that it is a
win for any process that spawns threads for connections. That would
jive w/ the FTP server hack. Also, I just checked my src directory and
found it in another FTPd source tree.
Not a biggy, I'm just curious. Thanks guys!
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Received on Mon Dec 20 1999 - 03:07:10 MST
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