Re: sendfile() and NUMTHREADS questions

On Sat, Dec 18, 1999, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Doug Renner wrote:
>
> > Would it be a worthwhile hack to make a sendfile() compliant ftp.c?
>
> What is sendfile()?
>
> If you are talking about the Linux syscall sendfile() then it is
> probably not a good idea. As far I can tell it requires Squid to block
> until the sendfile() call has completed, and is only implemented on
> Linux.

FreeBSD has a similar syscall. You can use the FreeBSD one in non-blocking
mode if you wished, although I haven't tried it in non-blocking mode just
yet.

Adrian

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