Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote:
> Davi-
> 
>    Regarding this issue:
> 
>       http://people.apache.org/~davi/leopard-sendfile.c
> 
>    Our kernel folks say this isn't a bug:
> 
>       No, this is not a bug.  Our sendfile(2) implementation is
>       similar to FreeBSD 4.x, where the 4th argument to the system
>       call (the value-result length parameter) includes the header
>       length.  In FreeBSD 5.x, this length does not include the
>       header, but that is not the semantics followed by Mac OS X.
> 
>    Is this sufficient information?  I've still got the bug open until  
> I hear from you.

Yes, makes more sense now. I just think the man page should be corrected:

"The len argument is a value-result parameter, that specifies how many
bytes of the file should be sent and/or"

It should remove the part "bytes of the file".

Thanks.

Regards,

--
Davi Arnaut

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