Sendfile in erlang

[Bengt Kleberg]

Miguel Barreiro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure whether the proper list is e-questions or e-patches, but this
> is a small patch anyway.
> 
> This draft patch adds a sendfile() interface to Erlang. Sendfile(2) is a
> system call present in Linux 2.2, AIX 5 and later kernels, and similar
> interfaces are present in recent versions of Solaris and possibly other
> Unices. The usual loop of read()ing from a file and then send()ing to a

while not beeing an unices, this is looks like sys->stream() from inferno.


bengt