On Feb 21, 4:47pm, gle...@eyesbeyond.com (Greg Lewis) wrote: -- Subject: Re: using the sendfile system call on Darwin
| Sending it to the list for review (either directly or by putting up a URL | people can see it at) is a good first step :). That's a great idea. | > > All of the BSDs have sendfile, its just limited to only sending the file to | > > a stream socket rather than any file descriptor, which Solaris and Linux | > > allow. It's fairly easy to implement code that will do that though, so | > > that's what was done rather than throwing errors when a non-socket file | > > descriptor was used. NetBSD is not BSD then because it does not have sendfile :-) | > > If NIO in general interests you, then a project we really need someone to | > > work on is porting NIO2 to BSD. None of the BSDs have the epoll mechanism | > > used on Linux or whatever Solaris uses (which I can't recall off the top of | > > my head right now). The suggestion is to use kqueue(2) on BSD. That is a good idea. christos
