On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:26:18PM -0500, Brian Utterback wrote: > When sendfile was integrated into Solaris, the rcp and ftp daemons > were modified to use it. This has resulted in numerous problems over > the years. As time has gone various issues have arisen, often having > to do with locking the files. As a result of this several constraints > were placed on the usage sendfile such that the user is expected to > prevent modifications of the file for the duration of the sendfile > call. These constraints are not required under the original semantics > of the rcp and ftp daemons.
Why should sendfile work that way? The manpage doesn't say that it does. _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
