[Samba] sendfile

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:19:52PM -0800, Learner Study wrote:
> I understand from the samba code (3.0.25) that we use sendfile during
> client's Read operation. Is there a reason for not using the same for
> write operation? Is it to do with header processing etc.

Under Linux, I have not yet found a recvfile function. There
is splice, but at least until recently this was only usable
in multi-threaded applications which Samba is not. In
current Samba there is code to use recvfile when it is
available, and a not-used version of splice code.

Volker
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