Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> As I indicated in my follow-up mail, the statement about seeking was
> incorrect, that is a property of the open file structure; I believe the
> remainder still holds true. When was the last time you tried mmap'ing or
> seeking on the socket? A socket represents a buffered data stream which
> does not allow arbitrary read/write operations at arbitrary offsets.
Actually there have been times when I did want to mmap a datastream..
I think a datastream mapped into a user buffer-space is one of the
possible 0-copy methods people sometimes mention.
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