Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dan Maas" <> | Subject | Re: LFS Support for Sendfile | Date | Sun, 3 Mar 2002 00:08:45 -0500 |
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> [sendfile(2)] as defined does not support LFS. > > I wonder does it really need to? I mean, a loop calling sendfile for > 2GB (or whatever) at a time is almost as good, if not better in some > ways.
The 'count' parameter is not the problem, it's the 'offset'. You can't send any data beyond 2GB from the beginning of the file...
And in fact just two days ago I was in a situation where this would have been desirable - I was sending parts of a captured DV video stream (the file was 6GB)...
Regards, Dan
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