>> I don't know if we want to add this feature, really. It's such a >> specialised thing. > >With union mount and cowlink, there are two users already. cp(1) >could use it as well, even if the improvement is quite minimal.
FTP PUT could use this too - currently, only FTPGETs can use sendfile because the target had to be a socket. (With FTP PUT, the src is a sock, dst is a filedescriptor.) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
