On 2008 Aug 14, at 19:07, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

to me, two of them don't have it, and the third seems to be
saying you cannot use it to move data from a file (which is
not a pipe) to a socket (which is not a pipe), which is the
use-case for sendfile().


Actually, while I'm not sure how Linux does it, on the *BSDs pipes are actually socketpairs.

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