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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] sendfile interface
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:03:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <956a268f177763e4cb4f4ad8177cf5a6@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030224065045.A5493@unicorn.math.spbu.ru>

It would be trivial to write a zero-copy system call

	int	syscopy(int from, int to, int n);

About ten lines of code, if it were really necessary.
It's a good exercise.

Russ



      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-24  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-19 22:32 Roman V. Shaposhnick
2003-02-24  3:50 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2003-02-24  3:56   ` rob pike, esq.
2003-02-24  4:03   ` Russ Cox [this message]

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