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Author	anacrolix
Recipients	anacrolix, giampaolo.rodola, loewis, pitrou, rosslagerwall
Date	2011-01-29.02:23:48
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Message-id	<1296267829.99.0.129434551457.issue10882@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Thanks for catching that: Presently (Linux 2.6.9): in_fd, must correspond to a file which sup‐ ports mmap(2)-like operations (i.e., it cannot be a socket); and out_fd must refer to a socket. Despite the fact the manpage hasn't changed since 2004, sendfile still only works for sockets. :(

Thanks for catching that:

Presently  (Linux  2.6.9):  in_fd, must correspond to a file which sup‐
       ports mmap(2)-like operations (i.e., it cannot be a socket); and out_fd
       must refer to a socket.

Despite the fact the manpage hasn't changed since 2004, sendfile still only works for sockets. :(

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-29 02:23:50	anacrolix	set	recipients: + anacrolix, loewis, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, rosslagerwall
2011-01-29 02:23:49	anacrolix	set	messageid: <1296267829.99.0.129434551457.issue10882@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-01-29 02:23:49	anacrolix	link	issue10882 messages
2011-01-29 02:23:48	anacrolix	create