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.
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