On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:52:51 +0100 Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote: > Nagendra Singh Tomar wrote: > > Thanx for ur reply. So this means that this Zero Copy can only be > > used by senders who have to send data from a "file" that supports mmap. I > > just can't fill a buffer in userland and expect it to be sent via Zero > > Copy. > > You can fill a buffer in userland and send it with zerocopy. To do > this, mmap() a file using PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE and MAP_FILE|MAP_SHARED. > > Then you can write directly to the file's pages in memory, and use > sendfile() to send that data. Exactly, get creative people :-) - : 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
