Re: [PATCH] Bindings for ‘sendfile’

[Ludovic Courtès]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> skribis:

> The original application was "ttn-do serve-debiso", which configures
> "ttn-do sizzweb" to serve debian ISOs (or rather, the various component
> .deb files and metadata that apt-get requests from the loopback-mounted
> ISO) over the home network.
>
> Specifically, proc ‘prep-file-transfer’ in module ‘(ttn-do sizzweb)’
> calls ‘sendfile’ in a loop.  Admittedly, that code could be replaced by
> ‘sendfile/never-fewer’, as the retval is not used in a particularly
> intelligent way, but anyway, the point is, at time of writing and early
> testing *sans looping*, apt-get on the other computer would stall and
> eventually die, complaining.  That's when i learned to read and think
> about sendfile(2) more carefully than i had before.

So that was over a PF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket, right?

Would it occur systematically, or just once in a while?

Ludo’.