On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > HI, > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] >> >> For 3.33 I applied a slightly modified version of you patch; see below. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael >> >> --- a/man2/sendfile.2 >> +++ b/man2/sendfile.2 >> @@ -92,10 +92,14 @@ The >> argument must correspond to a file which supports >> .BR mmap (2)-like >> operations >> -(i.e., it cannot be a socket); >> -and >> +(i.e., it cannot be a socket). >> +In Linux kernels before 2.6.33, >> .I out_fd >> must refer to a socket. >> +Since Linux 2.6.33 it can be any file. >> +If it is a regular file, then >> +.BR sendfile() >> +changes the file offset offset appropriately. > > You wrote 'offset' twice here, I guess it's a typo, unless I'm missing > something... Thanks Stefan. Fixed now. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
