On Sunday 09 September 2001 10:14, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2001, Ian Holsman wrote:
> > I was looking through the sendfile code, and it looks like we could
> > use sendfile to transmit a memory-mapped bucket if we kept the
> > file-descriptor when we create the mmap bucket.
> > I don't have sendfile installed on solaris (yet) but I think
> > sendfile is faster than writeev??
> > if this is the case, I think we should add a function/flag/macro to the
> > bucket-type is_sendfileable (which would be true for files/mmaps)
> > instead of checking the type of the bucket explictly.
>
> Just because you have an MMAP doesn't necessarily mean the original file
> descriptor is still open, so you're not guaranteed that you can use
> sendfile()...
I have thought about doing this for a long time, but I've been told that sendfile
is essentially a writev, so it isn't a win.
Ryan
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