On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 05:36:23PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> DESCRIPTION
> This call copies data between one file descriptor and
> another. Either or both of these file descriptors may
> refer to a socket. in_fd should be a file descriptor
> opened for reading and out_fd should be a descriptor
> opened for writing.
>
> If that is incorrect, then editing a private copy of the manpage,
> as Dan Hollis, or the distributor from whom he got his page,
> seems to have done, does not suffice to change the manpage distribution.
Improved attempt:
DESCRIPTION
This call copies data between one file descriptor and another. The
descriptor from which data is read cannot be a socket but must
correspond to a file which supports mmap()-like operations. in_fd
should be a filedescriptor opened for reading and out_fd should be a
descriptor opened for writing. Because this copying is done within
the kernel, sendfile() does not need to spend time transfering data
to and from userspace.
Regards,
bert hubert
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