Re: 2.6 sendfile

[Jörn Engel]

On Tue, 21 June 2005 23:07:23 +0300, nanakos@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Very interesting patches,but what i need to is a pacth or some points so i
> can change the existing source code according to my needs.Can someone help
> me on that?
> The existing sendfile system call copies data from a file descriptor to a
> socket descriptor.I have already a program that i have to port that uses
> the sendfile syscall from 2.4.x series kernels.In 2.6.x doesnt work.What
> are the minimal changes that have to be done so i can use again the
> syscall in 2.6.x kernel's???

The first two patches (generic_sendpage.patch and sendfile.patch)
should be all you need.  But they were rather quick hack and I haven't
seriously looked at them for quite a while.

Maybe I should change that.  Several people appear to be generally
interested in the subject.

Jörn

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