pipe mode and sendfile?

[Martin Blix Grydeland]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 at 16:35 Nils Goroll <slink at schokola.de> wrote:

>
> is there a particular reason for pipe mode not using sendfile half the
> number of
> syscalls required and avoid copying to/from a userspace buffer?
>

sendfile() requires the in_fd to be an fd supporting mmap-like operations,
ie no network sockets.

Martin
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