Charles-François Natali added the comment:

>> I agree, but both points are addressed by sendfile()
>
> I'm talking about send(), not sendfile().
> Please remember that send() will be used as the default on Windows or when 
> non-regular files are passed to the function. My argument is about 
> introducing an argument to use specifically with send(), not sendfile().

Which makes even less sense if it's not needed for sendfile() :-)
I really don't see why we're worrying so much about allocating 8K or
16K buffers, it's really ridiculous. For example, buffered file I/O
uses a default block size of 8K. We're not targeting embedded systems.

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