Re: Zero copy transmit

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:41:27PM -0500, Steve Modica wrote:
> At issue is really application capture and customer adoption.  There are
> tons of apps and lots of engineers that know socket operations and 
> write/writev.  Asking all ISVs to recode for linux would leave them with 
> two separate APIs to deal with. They would have send/sendto or 
> write/writev on Solaris, HPUX and whatever else, and linux would have 
> sendfile.

Solaris and HPUX have sendfile, the HPUX one has a slightly different
API, the Solaris one is modelled after Linux.