On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 19:55 +0800, Tang Rui wrote: (cut) > Learn about the splice() (and/or sendfile()) sys-call and use them in > your user-space solution. That should at least avoid copying the data > around. Good advice. You might want to read about the zero-copy concept also. I think that the 2 links I've collected so far could be useful to you. http://del.icio.us/arhuaco/zero-copy Regards, N.- -- http://arhuaco.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ