sendfile(2) fails for devices?

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 19:14:00 EST

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sendfile(2) fails with -EINVAL every time I try to read from a device
file.

This sounds like a bug... is it? (the man page doesn't mention such a
restriction)

I am using kernel 2.4.0-test11-pre2. All other tests with sendfile(2)
succeed: file->file, file->STDOUT, STDIN->file...

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