Re: [PATCH] Bindings for ‘sendfile’

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
() Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:56:38 +0200

   Well, I sympathize with the idea of sticking to the underlying
   syscall semantics; yet, for my own uses of ‘sendfile’, I can only
   think of cases all I want is to send the file.

I understand; it's easy to project one's limitations into the code.

   (Besides, it seems to be unusual to get ‘sendfile’ to send less than
   asked to.  The ‘pipe’ example mentioned in the manual would show up
   at most once every 10 iterations with our test case.)

API design is the art of making possible both the usual and the unusual.

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Thien-Thi Nguyen
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