Re: [dev-serveez] sendfile() on true64

[Raimund 'Raimi' Jacob]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, stefan wrote:

hi!

> find anything about it. Could you please help me finding *ANY* information
> about it ?

the new apache (>2.0, still alpha status) supports sendfile in all
favors. apache has a "portable runtime", APR which abstracts over various
aspects of the OS. network io is part of that abstraction layer.
(pretty much what serveez does :-)

you should download httpd-2_0_14-alpha.tar.gz from apache and read
srclib/apr/network_io/*/*, for this case
srclib/apr/network_io/unix/sendrecv.c ... very interesting. quote:
/* Tru64's sendfile implementation doesn't work, and we need to make sure that
 * we don't use it until it is fixed.  If it is used as it is now, it will
 * hang the machine and the only way to fix it is a reboot.
 */
unquote

... so they might have tested it with an older version (since you
obviously didnt crash the compaq machine)... but still it doesnt seem to
be a good idea to use it... also read that file for sendfile and
FreeBSD. has an interesting note, too.

Bye,
    Raimi

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