FreeBSD port (1)

Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de
Thu Sep 5 05:26:00 GMT 2002


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.



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