Jeremy Harris writes: > That's not a good argument against implementing it (and changing > the documentation to match) purely for orthogonality. It's not > impossible to imagine a UDP service where the data, while small, > is most conveniently held within a file. For example, an I18N > message catalogue. > > A better reason for not having done it yet is lack of resource.
A better reason still is a lack of a clear problem statement. I'm not completely convinced that sendfile() is the right sort of interface to solve the application. It might "help," but there may well be other solutions that are _far_ better. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
