> Although the man page says you can sendfile from a > socket,I am unable to do so... I can only send file > from a file, to either a socket or file > > Is this a kernel limitation? Yes, the manpage needs updating, you can only sendfile() from something that exists in the pagecache (ie not a socket). Anton - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html