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.
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