sendfile() in samba?

Jeremy Allison jeremy at valinux.com
Thu May 24 16:02:42 GMT 2001


Greg Dickie wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I have seen references to patches that put Linux sendfile support into samba
> but I was wondering if there is any "official" plan to put this in. Has the
> patch even been submitted?

I hacked it up for a test with 2.4 at a customer site. Anton
has also got a hacked version that does this.

It'll probably go in sometime in the 2.2.x Samba series when
we've got more time to experiment (and only with Linux 2.4.x
kernel oplocked files for safety).

Jeremy.

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