On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 02:19:43PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/14/2011 11:59 AM, Jeremy Allison wrote: > >> > >> Can we resurrect this effort? Is copyfile() still a good way to go, > >> or should we look at other hooks? > > > > Windows uses a COPYCHUNK call, which specifies the > > following parameters: > > > > Definition of a copy "chunk": > > > > hyper source_off; > > hyper target_off; > > uint32 length; > > > > and an array of these chunks which is passed > > into their kernel. > > > > This is what we have to implement in Samba. > > > > Could we do this by (re-)allowing sendfile() between two files? Oooh - nice idea ! Yes, having a completely symmetric sendfile which allows socket -> file, file -> socket, socket -> socket, file -> file would be a great idea (IMHO). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
