Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > The sendfile commit (fbac7c6113056bc6ee85996b10bdc08325c742a5) has > caused the following build failures on Hydra.
Thanks for the notification. > On GNU/Linux: (both i686-linux and x86_64-linux without threads) > > <http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4463700/log/raw> > <http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4463695/log/raw> > > checking sys/sendfile.h usability... yes > checking sys/sendfile.h presence... yes > checking for sys/sendfile.h... yes > [...] > checking for sendfile... yes > > ERROR: filesys.test: sendfile: pipe - arguments: ((system-error #f "~A" > ("Function not implemented") (38))) > ERROR: filesys.test: sendfile: pipe with offset - arguments: ((system-error > #f "~A" ("Function not implemented") (38))) Oops, fixed by 45417ab. > On FreeBSD: (x86_64-freebsd without threads) [...] > On Darwin: (x86_64-darwin, both with and without threads) > > <http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4463702/log/raw> > <http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4463698/log/raw> > > checking sys/sendfile.h usability... no > checking sys/sendfile.h presence... no > checking for sys/sendfile.h... no > [...] > checking for sendfile... yes It turns out that the BSDs have their own flavor: http://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/2/sendfile/ https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man2/sendfile.2.html We should support it, eventually, but for now commit 11ed427 just makes sure we don’t mistakenly attempt to use it. Thanks, Ludo’.
