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On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 09:34:43AM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote: [snip] > > two things would improve ftp: some sort of tls for the control channel > (and maybe the data channel as well), and kernel support for the data > channel. all i mean by this is the ftpd opens the file to be sent, > the socket to which the data needs to be read, and passes them both to > the kernel saying "splice these together, would you?" no more kernel- > to-userland-and-back copies, the kernel will *know* when the receiver > can take more data, and the ftpd can "abor" whenever it needs to by > closing the data socket. this feature would, of course, be mutually > exclusive with the optional encryption. That feature has been present in Linux and FreeBSD for some time now. It's called 'sendfile'. Greetz, Peter. -- [ircoper] [email protected] - Peter van Dijk / Hardbeat [student] Undernet:#groningen/wallops | IRCnet:/#alliance [developer] _____________ [disbeliever - the world is backwards] (__VuurWerk__(--*-
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