John Meacham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There isn't a standard unix sendfile, while a few different > ones have functions called 'sendfile', they have different > meanings/prototypes in general. If 'sendfile(2)' is going to > be exposed, it should be in a low level platform specific > library, however, since you are dealing with deciding to use > unportable behavior, it is hard to see what this will gain > over a manual FFI wrapper.
Well, for my purposes, I need to have at least three of them -- Linux, Darwin (BSD) and Windows. However, I think you are ultimately right, the heterogenity of sendfile() suggests that one should not stomp all over it with yet another variant. Maybe a reasonable compromise is a function that is more limited by design, with a distinctive name -- `fileSock`? -- that offers access to a universal subset of the functionality of sendfile() -- namely, pushing a file's contents over a socket efficiently. -- _jsn _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
